Drone, Rover, Rescue: The Student Tech Fighting America’s Invisible Flood

In a once-productive cornfield on the Delmarva Peninsula, the ground crunches underfoot with a white crust of salt. Bright green rows of young corn suddenly give way to barren, cracked earth where nothing grows. Farmers here have watched this creeping scourge worsen year by year: saltwater from rising seas is seeping into their fields, poisoning crops and turning good farmland into marsh. “When I bought this farm, this field was perfect. Now the tide comes in and out… at least half the time,” says Kevin Anderson, a Maryland farmer whose corn yields have plummeted as saltwater inundates his land.

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