Why Britain's coast is doomed

A study of recent data suggests that only good fortune has so far saved coastal communities from a major floodStorms during the winter of 2013-14 generated the maximum recorded sea level at 20 of the 40 tide gauge sites around the UK, as well as the largest number of extreme sea level events in any season in the last 100 years.This is one of the findings of scientists from Southampton University who have been studying coastal flooding around Britain to try to understand the increasing threat fro