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Debris from a collapsed house litters a beach in North Carolina. In the distance, a house on stilts still stands at the very edge of the ocean.

As seas batter fragile coasts, erosion can turn a paradise into disaster. Here, the battered remains of a house that collapsed earlier this month litter the beach in Rodanthe, N.C.

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By Sid Perkins

Shorelines worldwide have always been vulnerable to coastal erosion, a phenomenon rendered more ominous by rising sea levels that accompany modern-day climate change (SN: 9/29/22).