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Erica Gies

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Erica Gies is the author of "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge" (University of Chicago Press, 2022). She's also a National Geographic Explorer and independent journalist who covers science and the environment from Victoria, British Columbia, and San Francisco, California. Her work appears in the New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, Hakai, bioGraphic, National Geographic, and other outlets.
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The town of Selsey, on a peninsula called Manhood in England, was an island or peninsula at various times in history, and has often contended with flooding. In the far distance, behind the town, lies Medmerry Nature Reserve.

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This English Town Is Letting the Sea Have Its Way

The coastal community of Selsey welcomes the return of salt marshes where farms once stood.

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