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Coastal construction: how Britain's shoreline was built on
2015-10-20 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Settlements equivalent to a city the size of Manchester have been constructed along Britains coast over five decades, but conservationists have saved almost all seaside landscapes identified as pristine 50 years ago, a survey has found. A mapping project undertaken in 1965 defined 3,342 miles of the coast of England, Wales and Northern Ireland as pristine and worthy of protection, inspiring the National Trusts Neptune campaign, a 50-year effort to save shorelines from development and destruction....
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