Maelstrom under Greenland's glaciers could slow future sea level rise – pioneering mission into mysterious and violent world may reveal ‘speed bumps’ on the way to global coastal inundation
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What it's like to live in a Californian tourist attraction being swallowed by the sea
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Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
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Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the American South
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The country that’s sinking itself
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Ancient Sahul's submerged landscapes reveal a mosaic of human habitation
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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Tuvalu plans for its own disappearance [can an island state remain a state if it is underwater?]
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Greenland's massive ice sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots climate targets – but even then quick action could stabilize it
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Saltwater is pushing its way up the Mississippi River
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San Francisco considers lifting the Ferry Building by seven feet to save it from the sea
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Buried under the ice
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To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world's most remote fjords in Greenland and Antarctica
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
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Analysis rate of sea level rise and flood risk
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were thirty years ago
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The artificial island of Lynetteholm is meant to protect the Danish capital from floods and provide housing – but critics accuse the project of greenwashing
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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How sand made from crushed glass rebuilds Louisiana’s shrinking coast | World Wide Waste
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The world has no choice but to care about India’s heat wave
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As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
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The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland
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Gathering storm: The industrial infrastructure catastrophe looming over America’s gulf coast
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs
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One of Australia's most famous beaches at Byron Bay is disappearing, and storms aren't to blame. So what's the problem?
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
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The final years of Majuro
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About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece
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Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months – analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer
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When will the Netherlands disappear?
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s – scale and speed of loss much higher than predicted
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In face of rising sea levels the Netherlands ‘must consider controlled withdrawal’
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This coastal prefab stands tall above rising sea levels
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Jason-2 oceanography satellite ends eleven-year mission
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How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2019
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The country disappearing under rising tides
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Global sea level rise began accelerating ‘thirty years earlier’ than previously thought
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Highlights from the 2018 State of the Climate report
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Who will pay for the huge costs of holding back rising seas?
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Tuvalu's fight to stay above the waves
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Heaven or high water - Selling Miami's last fifty years
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Heaven or high water—Selling Miami's last fifty years
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Louisiana’s disappearing coast - The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.
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The last generation
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Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall?
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If sea levels rise and Pacific nations go under water — what happens to maritime boundaries?
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Atlantic City is really going down this time
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A hole opens up under Antarctic glacier — big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan
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Left to Louisiana’s tides, a village fights for time
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