How global warming is causing sea-level rise

Earth’s surface temperatures in 2017 were the second only to temperatures recorded in 2016, an El Niño year, and the hottest ever, since global estimates began.

Due to climate change, threats to cultural heritage along coastal regions are imminent. Whole communities in some cases are being claimed by the sea and significant archaeological sites we never knew existed before are being wiped away before they can even be documented.

To assist in the understanding of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, key data sets and information have been used to generate this infographic.