Growth in coastal areas called world's top challenge

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: March 2, 2007| Author: Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- The head of the nation's weather and climate research agency says the biggest challenge facing the world is population growth and people's desire to live in coastal areas where they can be endangered by storms.

"I believe that the population issue is huge," Conrad Lautenbacher said Thursday. "And it's not just the U.S., there are six billion ... getting up to seven billion people on the Earth, and they all want to live in coastal zones."

Lautenbacher is head of the ...

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