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Topic: sea level rise

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

Sea level rise causes local extinction

Matthew Rozsa
Children are crossing a dried-up lake at Boklung near Kathiatoli in Nagaon District, Assam, India, on April 13, 2024. (Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Summer could be even hotter than 2023

Matthew Rozsa
Thwaites Glacier (NASA/JPL)

Doomsday Glacier near collapse: study

Matthew Rozsa
Waves lap ashore near condo buildings on the day the United Nations released a report with a dire warning for humanity on August 09, 2021 in Sunny Isles, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Sea level rise is getting more serious

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

Sea level rise may be catastrophic

Matthew Rozsa
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

It’s not just oceans that are rising

Julia Kane, Lina Tran, Diana Kruzman - Grist
A view of flood damaged buildings are seen as US President Joe Biden (not pictured) inspects the damage from Hurricane Ida onboard Marine One during an aerial tour of communities in Laffite, Grand Isle, Port Fourchon and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, September 3, 2021. (JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Louisiana coast disappearing

Jake Bittle - Grist
Plastic Pollution in the Ocean (Getty Images/Yunaidi Joepoet)

Climate change inequity: Who pays?

Bethany Tietjen - The Conversation
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
Conceptual illustration of the Statue of Liberty and New York flooded and in ruins, in a possible future showing a rise in sea levels due to global warming (Getty Images)

What fictional drowned worlds teach us

Chelsea Haith - The Conversation
Windmills are seen in Kinderdijk, Netherlands on May 11, 2019. (Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Why the Netherlands is sinking

Molly Quell - Undark
In this June 15, 2014 photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Battaile)

Climate records in 2016

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

Goodbye Larsen C iceberg

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

poorest hardest hit

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
In this photo provided by James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey and Matthew Kennedy, the Trift glacier in Switzerland in 2015. Over the past decade or so scientists and photographers keep returning to the world’s glaciers, watching them shrink with each visit. Now they want other people to see what haunts them in a series of before and after photos. (Matthew Kennedy/Earth Vision Institute via AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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Alaska's climate nightmare

Lindsay Abrams
(Brendan Delaney/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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Flood risk rising

Lindsay Abrams
(AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Trump's dangerous climate myth

Lindsay Abrams
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A terrifying climate forecast

Lindsay Abrams
(Barry Tuck/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
In this June 16, 2015 photo, two Nikiski Fire Department firefighters walk on a road near a fire-ravaged forest left behind by the Card Street fire in Sterling, Alaska. The wildfire moved rapidly northeast toward the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and authorities have evacuated the Upper and Lower Skilak Lake campground. (Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion via AP) (AP)

Alaska's climate hell

Lindsay Abrams
John Cook (Screenshot, edX)

How to school climate deniers

Lindsay Abrams
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