IPCC: Rapidly rising seas and warming oceans threatening livelihoods, scientists warn

Michael Holder
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Latest sobering assessment from world's top scientists details the damage being wrought by climate change on the world's oceans, glaciers, and ice sheets

Our planet's oceans, glaciers, and ice sheets are being transformed by climate change at alarming rates, leaving no part of the world spared from the growing impacts of accelerating sea level rise and...

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