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Climate change threats to U.S. East and Gulf Coast Communities

a composition evocative of rising sea levels

Illustrating the complicated patterns of rising and falling ocean levels across the globe from 1993 to 2015.

Natural climate patterns create hot spots of rapid sea level rise.

Designed to help individuals prepare for flooding and mitigate damage to property.

Explore US sea level and coastal flood risks by region through data visualizations. Developed by Surging Seas Climate Central.

The Guidoiro Areoso experience in NW Iberia

How the changing climate is causing erosion, permafrost loss, sea ice retreat, sea-level rise, increased storminess and longer ice-free seasons, and what this means for coastal heritage sites.

Dangers from sea-level rise

Adapting to climate change

Threats to currently inhabited places from sea-level rise

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.

Interactive images show long-term sea-level rise set in motion by near-term carbon emissions threatens major global cities.

NASA's Earth Minute