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The coastline ofLouisiana's Avery Island has been battered by storms and rising seas, a result of global warming.The McIlhenny family, owners of Tabasco, say they will do whatever it takes to save the island.

A smallLouisiana island that's home to the world-famous Tabasco hot sauce is being threatened by rising seas and storms as a result ofglobal warming.

In recent years, the coastline of Avery Island and rising seas thanks to human-caused climate change, the New Orleans Times-Picayunereported. The situation has become so dire on the 2,200-acre island that suggestions have been made to move the famed McIlhenny Co.to a safer location.

That suggestion was quickly shooed away by the McIlhenny family, which comes as no surprise considering the sauce has been made exactly the same way for more than 150 years on the tiny islandusing the very salt upon which the factory sits.

Instead, the McIlhennyfamily has mounted an "expensive and ambitious effort" to save their home and factory.

Already, they have invested $1 million in a dam, along with an effort to re-engineer water flow and plant grasslands to help avoid coastal erosion.