This drone whizzed over the barren Salton Sea landscape in Niland, CA. It caught a glimpse of this beautiful, yet desolate, area by buzzing through empty warehouses and over dry lands.

Sea level rise is happening in many parts of the world. Where the land is rising, sea level rise is not as significant. Not as many people live where the land is rising, however.

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The dike would be strengthened, surely. But the sea remained our enemy, never to be trusted or underestimated. And the sea was always above us, that too we must remember.