# As Australia’s seas rise, safe land is disappearing and coastal flood costs could reach hundreds of billions

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- The Guardian, 2026-09-09 14:01 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/10/peters-farm-is-on-flood-country-as-australias-sea-levels-rise-safe-land-is-vanishing-and-costs-are-huge

> The Climate Council projects that coastal flooding could damage more than 267,000 Australian properties and 2m hectares of land by 2100, causing $855.1bn in economic losses. In the Clarence Valley, farmer Peter Lake says repeated floods and drought have sharply reduced the land available for cattle and fodder.