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The rising ocean

As islands vanish, shorelines shrink and cities flood, Guardian Seascape reveals how humanity is fighting back against the rising ocean

1 April 2024

  • A mangrove forest under threat in Sepaku District, East Borneo.

    Lost homes, lost traditions, lost habitats: the cost of Indonesia’s brand new city

    Residents of Balikpapan Bay in eastern Borneo dismiss claims that Nusantara will be a sustainable city that coexists with nature

19 September 2023

  • man cycles past construction equipment on the beach

    Property over people? New York City’s $52bn plan to save itself from the sea

    A decade after Hurricane Sandy, critics of a federal plan that allocates billions to protect the region from rising waters are calling it a ‘failure of imagination’

1 July 2023

  • The Buddhist temple surrounded by seawater with school in the background.

    Just four pupils left: how the sea rose up on a Thai village

    The school is on stilts, the shore has advanced by 2km – and the mangroves that used to reduce the waves have been lost for shrimp farms. How long can residents stay ahead of rising sea levels?

30 June 2023

  • The Thames Barrier at Sunset.

    Before the flood: how much longer will the Thames Barrier protect London?

    The colossal flood defence has been in use since 1982 – but as sea levels rise, it will need upgrading much sooner than expected

29 June 2023

  • Mary Maxwell on her way to a cross erected on the breakwaters to pray.

    Rising seas have flooded this Lagos town three times. It may not survive a fourth

    As waves and storms erode the Okun Alfa shoreline, the locals fight on – and hope a Yoruba deity can help where politicians have failed

28 June 2023

  • Frank Woll stands in ankle-deep seawater, building a retaining wall.

    A couple’s quixotic quest to save their drowning island – one rock at a time

  • A man pulls metal chests with possessions along as he and his family wade through seawater

    The rising ocean will extinguish more than land. It will kill entire languages

    Anastasia Riehl

27 June 2023

  • Archipelago

    ‘We could lose our status as a state’: what happens to a people when their land disappears

    Small island countries press for guarantees as rising sea levels risk leaving their citizens stateless
  • Children play in the sand mounds on a site where land is being reclaimed and extended as part of the Tuvalu's Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP) to implement measures that reduce exposure to coastal hazards.

    Dancing, feasts and faith mark life on a vanishing island – Tuvalu photo essay

    Music and laughter mix with the sound of waves crashing, a rhythm to life on a small atoll in the grip of the climate emergency
  • Aerial image of Funafuti, Tuvalu

    Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country

    As the climate emergency threatens its existence, the tiny Pacific nation is not only trying to reclaim physical land but create a ‘twin’ to survive in future

26 June 2023

  • An intertidal habitat for marine life constructed by the Australian company Living Seawalls.

    ‘Coastal squeeze’: the fight to save shoreline habitats from rising tides

  • A house destroyed by marine erosion and rising sea levels in the town of El Bosque, Mexico.

    ‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise

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