Stories Related to Coastal Erosion Worsens In Ten Thousand Islands As Seas Continue To Rise, Storms Strengthen

Fort Myers News-Press, The News-Press
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 2:01am

Forty years ago there was an island under these homes, 8 acres of sprawling beach just south of a popular winter tourism town known as Marco Island.

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