The largest island in The Bahamas, Andros holds countless adventures. World-class scuba diving, deep-sea and fly fishing, national forests and blue holes—and that’s just the beginning. #TheBahamas #flyaway | Travel Bahamas | Facebook

Andros, the largest island in the Bahamas, is changing in unexpected ways due to sea level rise. From 1985 through 2018, local tide gauges show that sea levels rose around 10 cm (4 inches). This is similar to the global rise in sea level NASA satellites have measured. Scientists expected this rise to alter the island’s shoreline. When they examined images of the island over the years, like this #Landsat image pair from 1986 and 2024, they found that the coastline had not receded as much as expec

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