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Responding to sea-level rise: the importance of culture

In the 21st Century, sea-level rise is one of the most pressing concerns for coastal communities worldwide. However, this is not the first time that humans have been forced to respond to rising sea levels. Sea‑level rise shapes coastlines, causes more frequent flooding events and... click to read more

  • Robert L. Barnett | Lecturer at University of Exeter, Devon, South West England, UK
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  • Sophie L. Ward | Research Fellow at Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK
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sea level
climate
landscape
human response
coast
Views 4111
Reading time 4 min
published on Jun 10, 2021
A prehistoric seawall to combat Mediterranean Sea-level rise

In November 2019, world media reported floods in Venice with the highest water levels in the region in more than 50 years (peaking at 1.87m above mean sea level). The mayor of Venice tweeted "These are the effects of climate change... the costs will be... click to read more

  • Ehud Galili | Lecturer and researcher at The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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  • Jonathan Benjamin | Associate Professor at College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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  • Liora Kolska Horwitz | Researcher at The National Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Neolithic
sea level
sea level rise
coastal protection
submerged prehistory
underwater archaeology
Views 5866
Reading time 4 min
published on Oct 6, 2020
The secrets hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet

The Antarctic ice sheet has been losing ice at an increasing rate. It remains unclear whether this mass loss will further accelerate over the coming decades. The continent of Antarctica is vast, bigger than the US and Mexico combined, and because it is so cold... click to read more

  • Mathieu Morlighem | Associate Professor at Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
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climate change
Antarctica
ice sheet
sea level
sea level rise
Views 5957
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Sep 17, 2020
Pliocene sea level snapshots

How much are the seas ultimately going to rise is a question scientists are still struggling to answer. To understand the polar ice sheets' sensitivity to current global warming, we draw on evidence from periods in the geologic record when Earth's climate was warmer than... click to read more

  • Oana A. Dumitru | PhD student at School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Florida, USA
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  • Bogdan P. Onac | Professor at School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Florida, USA
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sea level
U-Pb dating
phreatic overgrowth on speleothems
Mallorca
Views 5024
Reading time 2.5 min
published on Jun 18, 2020