Parts of South Chicago may be submerged by the expanding shoreline of Lake Michigan in the future, experts warn, with whole neighborhoods lost to the lake.
Scientists have created an interactive map that shows how parts of Illinois may be swallowed up by Lake Michigan as climate change bites.The Great Lakes in the Midwest comprise the largest unfrozen freshwater stores on Earth, but experts have forecast that rising water levels could have serious consequences.More than 30 million people live along the lakes' roughly 4,500 miles of coastline, which stretches across the U.S.
The government agency has created an interactive map showing how the lake's shorelines would change under various level rises.Lake Michigan, which is bordered by Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan, is shown with a current Low Water Datum level of 1.90 feet, with a high LWD of 4.92 feet. But if that level is raised to a LWD level of 10 feet—the worst scenario possible on the interactive map—the effects would be catastrophic.
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