Coastal erosion, Barbados. “As the polar climate changes and ice sheets melt, sea levels rise in Barbados could rise as much as two metres by 2080, pushing erosion 100 metres or more inland…”Captions: Nunatsiaq. Photo source: ©© Roger Meyer
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In recent decades, Antarctica and Greenland have played minor roles in the world’s rising oceans. But this is changing.
Rising sea levels don’t just put places underwater, but every centimetre increases the impacts that storm surges have on people, homes and coastal infrastructure…
