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An image from a drone of Majuro island

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Mapping Out What’s Next for the Marshall Islands

June 2018

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage

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Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data

March 2010

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage

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Global Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

March 2010

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To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San Diego Sediment Research Group) studied the environmental impact of dredging sediment from the waterways.

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Saving Venice, Italy

January 2010

A summertime channel carries melted ice to the sea. Antarctica and Greenland lose around 350 billion tons of ice each year from such melting.

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Ice Melt at the Poles

January 2018