Two researchers on the NZ SeaRise Programme, Dr Rob Bell, a coastal oceanographer at NIWA and Dr Judy Lawrence, a climate change researcher at the Victoria University of Wellington, and other researchers discussed the sea-level rise around New Zealand with Charlie Mitchell, recipient of the NZ SeaRise Science Journalism fund.
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New Zealanders love the coast. We’ve spent decades building stuff hard up against it - underground and on the land. But it’s getting too close. Right now, the sea is advancing on the tens of thousands of people who live within 50cm of the high tide mark. And it won’t stop.