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Engineers are diverting Mississippi river to restore Louisiana’s coast

South of New Orleans, a project to divert the Mississippi river could restore ecosystems destroyed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and build new land to protect against sea level rise

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US coastal cities face higher 2050 flood risk because they are sinking

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Floods in New Orleans after a storm surge from Hurricane Sally in 2020

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Earthquakes hastened sea rise in Pacific islands by sinking the ground

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Extensive melting of West Antarctic ice sheet now looks unavoidable

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Commuter on a bike in floods

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Sea level rise is already leading to longer commutes in coastal US

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ANTARCTICA - FEBRUARY 15: 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 15, 2023. Turkish scientists sailed with the 80-meter Chilean-flagged research ship 'Betanzos' for nearly a month as part of the 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition. During the voyage, Turkish scientists arrived at Horseshoe Island via a new transit channel developed in the Gullet and Barlas Channel, which was previously covered in ice due to melting sea ice caused by global climate change. The minimum width of sea ice in Antarctica for 2023 fell to 1.79 million square kilometers, the lowest level on record, on February 21. While this data is 1.05 million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average, it also points out that a new record decrease is experienced every year. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Sea level may have been higher than it is now just 6000 years ago

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Much of Greenland's ice could melt even if world doesn't get warmer

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'Doomsday' glacier in Antarctica isn't as vulnerable as feared

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Antarctic ice melt may be reversible due to rising land beneath

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Oosterschelde flood barrier with windmills in the Netherlands at the Northern Sea taken from above with a drone

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Coastal cities have added 2500 squares kilometres of land since 2000

An analysis of satellite images taken since the year 2000 found that hundreds of the most populous coastal cities have added land, which is now vulnerable to sea level rise

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Hulhumale, a new island in the Maldives

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Artificial urban islands could supply homes in Maldives as waters rise

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Satellite photo of the B22a iceberg after coming unstuck

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Breakaway iceberg raises concerns over Antarctica’s 'doomsday glacier'

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People walk in a flooded St Mark's Square

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Venice may get a temporary respite from rising seas by 2035

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Rapidly thinning Northeast Greenland ice sheet could add more to sea-level rise than thought

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Melting Greenland ice raises sea level more than previously thought

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