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Topic: Sea levels

A house destroyed by the sea on the island of Carti Sugtupu, in the Indigenous Guna Yala Comarca, Panama, in the Caribbean Sea, is seen on August 30, 2023. (LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images)

UN chief warns of rising sea levels

Rising sea levels (freie-kreation/Getty Images)

Forget federal aid. How about a truck?

Adam Mahoney - Grist

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How to save the California coast

Alexandria Herr - Grist

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference about the opening of a COVID-19 vaccination site at the Hard Rock Stadium on January 06, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

FL Republicans ready to stop rising seas

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

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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

Aerial view of the Bangkok city skyline and the Chao Phraya River, Thailand. (Getty Images/Deejpilot)

These cities will drown as the seas rise

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

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

Historic sites effected by climate

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The rift in November 2016 spanning 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide, and about a third of a mile deep. (AP/John Sonntag)

the trillion-ton iceberg

Brian Kahn - Climate Central

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A disastrous, watery future

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(Screenshot, KUSI News)

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San Diego at 5 meters sea level rise (@SFriedScientist/Twitter)

Christopher Loeak, President of the Marshall Islands. (AP/Frank Franklin Ii)

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Purple is the new red

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A 3-D rendering of the canyon buried under Greenland's ice sheet (J. Bamber, University of Bristol)

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Natasha Lennard

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