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Degraded sea wall protecting the village of Yadua, Fiji - Patrick Nunn
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Mangrove nursery and recent foreshore plantings - Patrick Nunn
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Flooding on FDR Drive and 80th Street, Manhattan during the December 13 1992 extra-tropical cyclone - The Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division, New York Herald-Tribune Photo Morgue
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Potential surge height for a Category 1 (Saffir-Simpson scale) hurricane at Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Manhattan entrance - Rosenzweig and Solecki 2001
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Gold Coast Australia. Billions of dollars of coastal infrastructure built immediately adjacent to the coast - Bruce Miller
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Greenland ice sheet was losing about 100 billion
tones per year around 2000. This may have
doubled by 2005 - Konrad Steffen
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Low-lying coral atolls are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise - John Hay
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Male, Maldives aerial - Bruce Richmond, USGS
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Concentration of human settlements and activities along low lying coasts, as shown here for Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Helen Henry
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Sea wall protecting road in the atoll of South Tarawa, Kiribati - John Hay
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The Thames Barrier. Built 25 years ago, the barrier and associated defences require significant upgrading to protect the City of
London from higher sea levels and storm surges - The Environment Agency
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