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The Key Largo tree cactus can grow to impressive heights. (Photo courtesy of Susan Kolterman)

Sea level rise causes local extinction

Matthew Rozsa
NASA's Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past nine years and is currently flying a set of nine-hour research flights over West Antarctica to monitor ice loss aboard a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P-3 aircraft. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Antarctica's past — and future — melt

Matthew Rozsa
A view of dried soil after the rising temperatures attributed to climate change have resulted in a reduction of water levels in wells and reservoirs across Sanaa, Yemen on August 26, 2023. (Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

2023 proved climate change is here

Matthew Rozsa
New York City, Aerial view of city with Statue of Liberty at sunset (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

NYC is sinking, increasing flood risk

Matthew Rozsa
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Lone penguin standing on ice floe (Getty Images/Andrew Peacock)

Sea level rise may be catastrophic

Matthew Rozsa
Melting icebergs are seen on Horseshoe Island as Turkish scientists conduct fieldwork on Horseshoe Island within 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition under the coordination of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK) MAM Polar Research Institute with the joint responsibilities of the Turkish Presidency and Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology in Antarctica, on February 26, 2023. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Antarctica missing massive sea ice

Matthew Rozsa
Thwaites Glacier (NASA/JPL)

Sea level rise gets real

Matthew Rozsa
A vehicle passes through a flooded street. All the major roads are flooded after the heavy rain during monsoon at Kolkata, West Bengal, India (Dibakar Roy/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How climate change will flood our cities

Matthew Rozsa
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A damaged home in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Louisiana’s plan to stay above water

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
FILE - This Nov. 11, 2016 file photo shows Blood Falls, bottom left, and the Taylor Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. (Mark Ralston/Pool Photo via AP, File) (AP)

Antarctic sea ice is "astonishingly" low

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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How many big storms can coasts endure?

Reynard Loki - Alternet
((Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory))

Greenland is melting

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Antarctic meltdown

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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lawsuits in california

John Upton - Climate Central
FILE - This July 10, 2008 file photo made with a fisheye lens shows ice floes in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle, seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. In the annual Arctic Report Card, released Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. a record emerged for sea ice, which appears when Arctic Ocean water freezes. If governments are serious about the global warming targets they adopted in Paris, scientists say they have two options: eliminating fossil fuels immediately or finding ways to undo their damage to the climate system in the future. The first is politically impossible _ the world is still hooked on using oil, coal and natural gas _ which leaves the option of a major cleanup of the atmosphere later this century. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) (AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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