World Coastal Population Increasing

LiveScience.com reports on a study by the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) of the Earth Institute at Columbia University that shows the world's coastal population (those within 60 miles of the coast) increasing by 35 percent from 1995 to 2025. Certainly, this is not an amazing study because population growth itself will account for a large proportion of that growth and much of the world's huge urban agglomerations are along the coasts. However, I present the article because of the two very interesting maps attached to the article which show population increase and decrease throughout most of the world (Oceania is excluded from the maps, sorry!)