The Outer Banks prepare for the impact of rising sea levels

RODANTHE (WSOC) — Miles off the coast of the mainland of North Carolina, exposed to the fury and beauty of the Atlantic, the only constant for the Outer Banks is change.

The chain of barrier islands has been moving, growing, eroding, and reforming for millennia, but those changes don’t always coexist with the development that’s cropped up across the islands over the past several decades.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Reide Corbett, Executive Director of the Coastal Studies Institute, has watched the conflict firsthand from Roanoke Island.

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