Coastal communities in many parts of the U.S. are trying to adapt as climate change and sea level rise increasingly threaten oceanfront homes.
In one North Carolina Outer Banks community, a unique program allows the National Park Service to buy up those properties and demolish them before they fall into the water.
WUNC’s Zachary Turner reports.
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