Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve at high tide, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level rise, Essex, England, UK...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Saltmarsh at twilight, with lights of Bradwell-on-Sea in the background, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

David Woodfall / A sea wall being built to protect fishing village from floods, in response to rising sea levels due to climate change, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, June 2008

David Woodfall / A sea wall being built to protect fishing village from floods, in response to rising sea levels due to climate change, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, June 2008

Ashley Cooper / Landslip on the South West Coast Path at Charmouth. This section of the Jurassic Coast has always been prone to landslips due to the unstable nature of the Jurassic clays and shales, but increased hea...

Ashley Cooper / Canal going from the sea to the reclaimed polder land in Holland, north of Amsterdam, which is some 20 feet lower than the sea. With 50% of the Netherlands below sea level, it is incredibly vulnerable...

Pete Oxford / Great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) laid out on beach. Research MAR Alliance is performing population assessments on Sharks, Rays, and Great Barracuda to aid with management and protection. They are...

Pete Oxford / MAR Alliance research team returning tagged Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) to water after collecting samles to determine methyl mercury levels. Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize. May 2015.

Pete Oxford / MAR Alliance researchers taking samples from Great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) with Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) in the water below after samples have been taken. The samples are to deter...

Pete Oxford / Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) about to be released after sampling to determine methyl mercury levels by MAR Alliance, Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize.

David Woodfall / Common reed (Phragmities communis), Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Environment Agency to create new sal...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, at sunrise, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT...

David Woodfall / Marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and lyme grass (Elymus sp) washed by exceptionally high spring tide, Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK. The Environment Agency and the WWT has...

David Woodfall / Sunset over Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT a...

David Woodfall / Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Envi...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, at sunrise, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT a...

David Woodfall / Sunset over Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood on high tides...

David Woodfall / Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Envi...

David Woodfall / Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Envi...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, at sunrise, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT a...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the W...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of the River Parrett and Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Environment Agency to create new s...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, at sunrise, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of the River Parrett and Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Environment Agency to create new s...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the W...

David Woodfall / Common reed (Phragmities communis), Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Environment Agency to create new sa...

David Woodfall / Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Envir...

David Woodfall / Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Envir...

David Woodfall / Aerial view of Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve with Hinkley Point nuclear power station in background, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the...

David Woodfall / Boulders placed on the beach to encourage displacement of newly created sand dune by sea and thus raising level of beach in an attempt to reduce coastal erosion and protect Hightown village. This man...

David Woodfall / Boulders placed on the beach to encourage displacement of newly created sand dune by sea and thus raising level of beach in an attempt to reduce coastal erosion and protect Hightown village. This man...

Merryn Thomas / Severn Bridge (The Second Severn Crossing). Severn Beach, nr Bristol, UK. October 2011.

Ernie Janes / Exposed tree roots and eroded coastline, due to rising sea levels, Andaman Sea, Gulf of Thailand, 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / 2020VISION Young Champion Oliver Creamer photographing established saltmarsh, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / An intertidal creek at low tide, part of the regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of a breached sea wall, with established saltmarsh on right and regenerating habitat on left, such breaches are purposefully made and are part of the regeneration of saltmarsh landscape, providin...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Saltmarsh at twilight, with lights of Bradwell-on-Sea in the background, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common sea lavender (Limonium vulgare) and Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on saltmarsh, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level rise, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Tide rushing through a purposefully made breach in a sea wall, such breaches are part of the regeneration of saltmarsh landscape, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection fr...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Landscape showing eroding saltmarsh against a sea wall, the majority of saltmarsh habitat that is lost in the UK is caused by similar 'hard' coastal defences preventing the landward migration of saltm...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Landscape showing eroding saltmarsh against a sea wall, the majority of saltmarsh habitat that is lost in the UK is caused by similar 'hard' coastal defences preventing the landward migration of saltm...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve at high tide, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level rise, Essex, England, UK...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve at high tide, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level rise, Essex, England, UK...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve at high tide, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level rise, Essex, England, UK...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve at high tide, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level rise, Essex, England, UK...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / View of regenerated saltmarsh landscape around Abbots Hall Farm Nature Reserve at high tide, providing both a rich wildlife habitat and greater flood protection from sea level rise, with rainbow, Esse...

Doug Perrine / Greater crested / Swift tern (Thalasseus / Sterna bergii) chicks starting to swim across a pond formed as rising tide floods the interior of Turu Cay, Torres Straits, Queensland, Australia. October....

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of a dead hardwood tree by the sea. These trees once grew further inland in coastal lowland forest but are now on the coast as a result of rising sea levels, Philippines, May 2009.

David Woodfall / Home threatened by rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, July 2008

David Woodfall / Coastal erosion to dyke caused by rising sea levels, Ganges delta, Bangaldesh, JUly 2008

David Woodfall / Coastal erosion to dyke caused by rising sea levels, Ganges delta, Bangaldesh, July 2008

David Woodfall / Coastal erosion to dyke caused by rising sea levels, Ganges delta, Bangaldesh, July 2008

David Woodfall / Date palm plantation threatened by rising sea levels, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, July 2008

David Woodfall / Homes threatened by rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, July 2008

David Woodfall / Family with their home threatened by rising sea levels, climate change, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, July 2008

David Woodfall / Men buiding sea wall to combat rising sea levels, climate change, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, July 2008

David Woodfall / Fresh water pump and house surrounded by flood from rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, June 2008

David Woodfall / Village community at risk from rising sea levels due to climate change, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Village community at risk from rising sea levels due to climate change, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Homes threatened by rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Homes threatened by rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Homes threatened by rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Shrimp fishing community threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Home threatened by rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, climate change, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Home threatened by rising sea levels, Passur river, Ganges delta, climate change, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Shrimp fishing community threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, November 2008

David Woodfall / Eroding saltmarsh caused by rising sea levels, Climate Change, Bridgewater Bay NNR Severn Estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Eroding saltmarsh caused by rising sea levels, Climate Change, Bridgewater Bay NNR Severn Estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Little tern (Sternula albifrons) pair, one taking off, the other feeding in marked scrape nest on raised fish boxes to prevent flooding by rising sea levels, Northumberland, UK

David Woodfall / Little tern (Sternula albifrons) sitting on scape on raised fish box to prevent flooding by rising sea levels, Northumberland, UK

David Woodfall / National Trust wardens relocating Little tern (Sternula albifrons) nests on to raised fish boxes to prevent flooding by rising sea levels, Northumberland, UK, June 2009

David Woodfall / Little tern (Sternula albifrons) pair, one in flight, the other feeding, in marked nest on raised fish box to prevent flooding by rising sea levels, Northumberland, UK

Gary K. Smith / Coastal freshwater marsh with Cley village in background, Norfolk, UK

Tom Vierus / Wooden sea defence structure along the shore, to protect city from rising sea levels, Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji. January, 2023.

Tom Vierus / Road works under construction along the foreshore of Fiji's capital Suva, to protect against rising sea levels, Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji. January, 2023.

Gary Braasch / Native Inupiat village on low-lying land, one of several villages threatened by rising sea levels and permafrost thaw, Kivalina, Alaska, Bering Sea. August, 2015.

Gary Braasch / Cemetery on the shore of Chesapeake Bay being eroded away by rising sea levels and subsidence, Hooper Island, Maryland, USA. May, 2012.

Tom Vierus / Aerial tracking shot of coastal community. The village protects itself from rising sea levels with a concrete seawall. Coral Coast, Viti Levu, Fiji.

David Maitland / Microscopic view of hard, defensive calcareous structures (spicules) within the bodies of Gorgonian corals, Sponges and Holothuria found in coral sand on the sea floor. As environmental carbon dioxide...

Ashley Cooper / Coastal erosion caused by increased stormy weather and rising sea levels, Walney Island, Cumbria, UK. June, 2021.

Jean E. Roche / Aerial view of the east coast of Beauduc showing flooded areas caused by sea levels rising, Camargue, France. September 2019.