Unauthorized use is prohibited.Ī touchtone of American popular culture with its casinos and boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic City is home to around 40,000 people, more than a third of whom live below the poverty line.īenjamin Strauss, a sea level expert at Climate Central, an organization of scientists, says that people in Atlantic City are uniquely vulnerable to rising seas because they inhabit a barrier island with extremely low and flat terrain.
