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Can coral reef islands survive sea level rise?

Sea-level rise will expose coastal communities around the world to increasingly destructive coastal erosion and flooding. This is especially true for coral reef islands, which are low elevation accumulations of loose sand and gravel that have become populated throughout the tropics. For atoll nations like... click to read more

  • Eddie Beetham | Coastal scientist at Tonkin and Taylor International Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand
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  • Gerd Masselink | Professor of Coastal Geomorphology at School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK
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  • Paul Kench | Professor of Earth Science at Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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climate change
coral
sea level rise
atoll
reef island
Views 3621
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Dec 21, 2020
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 4147
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 4199
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Sep 17, 2020