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Sea level

October 2023

  • Pipes lie across the Mississippi River as the US Army Corp of Engineers moves silt on to an underwater sill to help slow the flow of saltwater intrusion.

    America's dirty divide
    Saltwater threat to Louisiana drinking water to grow across US, experts warn

  • Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai

    A court among the coconut palms: when justice came to visit the Torres Strait

August 2023

  • 230812 Desert Island Climate Denial thumbnail

    When it comes to the climate crisis, no man is an island

  • First Dog on the Moon

    Sea ice is at historic lows meanwhile Australia wants to cut scientific research in Antarctica?!

    First Dog on the Moon

July 2023

  • Bleached coral, caused by rising sea temperatures along Australia's Great Barrier Reef

    The Guardian view on climate science: warming oceans are a warning of the chaos ahead

    Editorial: While the timetables are debatable, there is no doubt that extreme weather disruption is cause for alarm

June 2023

  • The Thames Barrier at Sunset.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Before the flood: how much longer will the Thames Barrier protect London?

  • Frank Woll stands in ankle-deep seawater, building a retaining wall.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    A couple’s quixotic quest to save their drowning island – one rock at a time

  • First Dog on the Moon

    First Dog on the Moon
    Sea levels: the worst-case scenario is already here! Taylor isn’t doing A SINGLE show at the Antarctica Walrusdome

    First Dog on the Moon
  • A house destroyed by marine erosion and rising sea levels in the town of El Bosque, Mexico.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Coastal squeeze’: the fight to save shoreline habitats from rising tides

  • The sudden warming of Britain’s seas will tear through ocean life like a wildfire

    Philip Hoare
  • The age of extinction
    One of Britain’s largest sunken forests reveals its secrets

May 2023

  • Aerial view of lower Manhattan

    New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds

    City is sinking approximately 1-2mm each year on average, worsening effects of sea level rise and flooding threat
  • Icebergs float in Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean

    Oceans have been absorbing the world’s extra heat. But there’s a huge payback

    Record sea surface temperatures suggest the Earth is headed for ‘uncharted territory’ in terms of sea level rise, coastal flooding and extreme weather
  • A print with names of Commonwealth countries on leaves and birds in branches

    Opinion
    Sunak was brutally honest, so let me return the favour: the Commonwealth today is irrelevant

    Kenneth Mohammed
    As former colonies pay tribute to the unapologetic descendant of their imperial masters, Britain’s refusal to pay reparations for slavery makes a mockery of the coronation

April 2023

  • Icebergs at Disko Bay, Ilulissat, Greenland.

    Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’, say scientists

    ‘Unprecedented’ warming indicates climate crisis is taking place before our eyes, experts say
  • A lifeguard tower on Miami Beach.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Miami and New Orleans face greater sea-level threat than already feared

    Twin studies reveal that ‘acceleration’ of sea-level rise under way, leaving southern US cities in even greater peril
  • The ‘Doomsday’ Thwaites glacier in Antarctica

    Ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres a day, far faster than feared, study finds

    Sediments from the last ice age provide a ‘warning from the past’ for Antarctica and sea level rise today, say scientists

March 2023

  • Local NGO workers serve Iftar food in a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia. This year, Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in Somalia.

    The Guardian view on a water crisis: targets need to be binding

  • A remote Fijian village flattened by Cyclone Winston in 2016. The UN has passed a resolution spearheaded by Pacific island nations that seeks to clarify countries’ climate obligations.

    United Nations adopts landmark resolution on climate justice

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