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Topic: rising sea levels

Declining sea ice may present the largest threat to Pacific walrus populations in the future. (Devin Johnson / USFWS Permit PRT #MA33776D)

The internet is trying to save walruses

Matthew Rozsa
JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A haze cover the Jakarta bay skyline in Jakarta, 10 June 2007. Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change as global warming threatens to raise sea levels and flood coastal farming areas, threatening food security. Meanwhile, Indonesia could lose 2,000 small islands by 2030 due to a rise in sea levels as a result of climate change, Indonesia Environment Minister, Rachmat Witoelar said. AFP PHOTO/Ahmad ZAMRONI (Photo credit should read AHMAD ZAMRONI/AFP/Getty Images) (Ahmah Zamroni/AFP/Getty)

Retreating from rising seas is a reality

Kate Yoder - Grist
(AP/Gerald Herbert)

$1 trillion of real estate wiped out?

Eric Holthaus - Grist
A fisherman drives a boat near Ilulissat, Greenland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Historic sites effected by climate

Patty Hamrick
(AP)

Sea level rise could devastate cities

Charlie May
(Wikimedia)

Greenland is melting

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

One GOP rep stands alone

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
This Nov. 6, 2015, photo shows people building a sea wall on Majuro Atoll, Marshall. Rising seas in the Marshall Islands can be seen on many of the Atolls in the group as more coastline disappears and vegetation is washed away. The US military ignored warnings about rising seas to build a space radar costing nearly a billion dollars on a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Space Fence system is considered vital for keeping astronauts and satellites safe by tracking space junk as small as a baseball.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (AP)

Floods Ahead

John Upton - Climate Central
(Getty/Daniela Agius)

The oyster is your world

Diane Stopyra
NASA's DC-8 flies over the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, October 26, 2010. (Reuters/Michael Studinger)

Devastating new climate study

Michael Garofalo
This undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. ((AP Photo/NASA))

Sarah Gray
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