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Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise

44 of the 48 most populous coastal cities have areas sinking faster than the sea is rising, driven by groundwater pumping and compacted soil from heavy buildings

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Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

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A broad cowtail stingray (Pastinachus ater)

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Watch stingrays make odd clicking sounds as they glide through the sea

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Rock pooling with Helen Scales

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Rock pool science with marine biologist Helen Scales

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For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. This extraordinary event was followed by the surface snow and ice rapidly melting. Researchers discovered that it wasn?t the rain that caused the melt, it was unusually warm ?atmospheric rivers? that swept along Greenland, bringing potent melt conditions when the melt season would normally be drawing to a close. Thanks to detailed measurements from the network of automatic weather stations on the ice set up by the Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland coupled with measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites in space helped researchers understand the exact processes and dynamics of how the ice melts.

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Feedback loop in Greenland amplified ice melt from warm weather

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A polar bear

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Polar bears adapting to climate change by hunting on freshwater ice

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A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

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Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

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RRS Sir David Attenborough completes ice trials in Antarctica

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RRS Sir David Attenborough completes ice trials in Antarctica

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sponge mound

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Watch first video of a possible rare sponge reef found near California

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Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 – what can we do?

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Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 – what can we do?

Smart engineering solutions such as “sand motors” and artificial reefs will defend our coasts for a while. But in many places, conversations are already turning to a managed retreat inland

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Collapse of doomsday glacier in Antarctica could begin within a decade

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RRS Sir David Attenborough and Boaty McBoatface visit London

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6 charts that show what climate change is doing to our planet

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RRS Sir David Attenborough and Boaty McBoatface visit London

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