https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/weather/sea-level-rise-accelerating-east-coast/index.html

By Jackson Dill andBrandon Miller, CNN

Updated 9:41 AM ET, Fri March 26, 2021Rising water caused by Hurricane Sandy rushes into the Carey Tunnel (formerly the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel), on October 29, 2012 in New York City.

(CNN)Along a stretch of the East Coast that includes New York City, sea-level rise has increased at its fastest rate in the prior 100 years compared to the past 2,000 years, according to a newstudyled by Rutgers University.”The global rise in sea-level from melting ice and warming oceans from 1900 to 2000 led to a rate that’s more than twice the average for the years 0 to 1800 — the most significant change,” Rutgers said of the study’s findings.The study uses new techniques and focuses on six specific locations in the northeastern US, including three in New Jersey and one each in Connecticut, New York and North Carolina.Human-induced…