title: Sea Level Rising: The Chatham Story
author: William Sargent
description: William Sargent is a consultant for the "NOVA" science series on public television and has written eight extensively on science and environment. He was a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and past director of the Baltimore Aquarium. He has taught marine biology at the Briarwood Center and science writing at Harvard University.
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  PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH RUSH’S _RISING_
  
  
  “Deeply felt … Rush captures nature with precise words that almost amount to
  poetry; the book is further enriched with illuminating detail from the lives
  of those people inhabiting today’s coasts…. Elegies like this one will play an
  important role as people continue to confront a transformed, perhaps unnatural
  world.”
  
  
  — _New York Times_
  
  
  “The book on climate change and sea levels that was missing. Rush travels from
  vanishing shorelines in New England to hurting fishing communities to
  retracting islands and, with empathy and elegance, conveys what it means to
  lose a world in slow motion. Picture the working-class empathy of Studs Terkel
  paired with the heartbreak of a poet.”
  
  
  — _Chicago Tribune_ (Best Ten Books of 2018)
  
  
  “Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Rush shows,
  it’s affecting real people right now. _Rising_ is a compelling piece of
  reporting, by turns bleak a