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If the world is to adapt to sea level rise with minimal cost, we must address the uncertainty surrounding Antarctica’s melting ice sheet. This requires significant investment in scientific capacity.
As the state copes with hurricanes and climate disasters, it is figuring out how to manage the slow-motion loss of its coastal land. But its plans could endanger the cultures that define the region.
Waves, storms and floods can reshape atoll islands to survive sea-level rise – but their coral reefs need protection.
A new analysis, using 15 years of autonomous underwater measurements and simulations from the latest global climate models, refined our estimate of future ocean warming and sea level rise.
From Fiji to France to Central Australia, stories abound of lands lost beneath the sea. Some are likely founded on millennia-old memories of coastal submergence, offering us clues today.
What might sound like small changes – temperatures another tenth of a degree warmer, sea level a few centimeters higher – have big consequences for the world around us.
A plan for humanity’s surviving and thriving through our planetary crisis.
The IPCC report has laid out some alarming sea level projections for the future. But the relationship between sea level rise and real-world risk is complex.
Five climate-sensitive infectious diseases exist in the Torres Strait. Traditional Owners are calling on the UN for action.
Some of the climate changes will be irreversible for millennia. But some can be slowed and even stopped if countries quickly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, including from burning fossil fuels.
The latest IPCC report makes it clear we can no longer stop the seas from rising, but we can still control how much and how fast sea levels change.
The Army Corps of Engineers is planning a sea wall 6 miles long and flood gates. The infrastructure might protect downtown from a hurricane storm surge, but most of the area will still be vulnerable.
The triple whammy of the moon’s wobble, sea level rise and more intense storms will bring worse tidal floods into coastal communities in the 2030s. This includes in Australia.
In principle, some portion of the shoreline is public land along virtually all US coasts. But these can sometimes overlap with private property interests, creating confusion and conflict.
Done right, managed retreat redesigns communities to be better for everyone. Here’s how it’s evolving for the future.
Killer whales among the animals at risk from a ‘second wave’ of pollutants, as coasts erode and sea levels rise.
NOAA’s 2021 high-tide flooding outlook shows where the risks are highest and growing. Some communities are seeing 20 or more days of flooding a year now.
With climate change making more than 30,000 coastal properties potentially uninsurable within the next 25 years, government-led solutions should be fast-tracked.
Structures are built to withstand a normal range of conditions. But what’s ‘normal’ is changing rapidly.
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, and Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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University visitor, University of Southampton
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
