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WINNERS OF THE 2009 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (WITH IBG) ‘GO BEYOND’ BURSARY
 
   
 
Welcome to Atlantic Rising
 

Atlantic Rising is a charity on a 32,000 mile journey circumnavigating the Atlantic overland along the 1m contour line. This is the level scientists predict sea levels may reach in the next 100 years.

Along the way we are creating an educational network between 15,000 students in low-lying coastal communities. Through our photography, films and writing, we are also documenting what will be lost if these predictions come true.

We don't claim to have all the solutions to stop sea levels from rising.  But we hope our work will help the next generation understand their responsibility to each other to build a sustainable future.

 
 

Last week

19/07/2010 - Final week of our photo competition. We left Caracas for Colombia and published our latest hot topic on the Belo Monte dam in Amazonia.

 

This week

26/07/2010 - We are in Colombia, editing radio interviews with Venezuelan explorers and arranging shipping to Mexico.  Then off to the San Andres archipelago for some hurricane dodging. 

 
 
Expedition Route

 
Latest Galleries

Charles Brewer Carias

Trying to keep up with Venezuela's most famous explorer

 
Mount Roraima

Tim and Will venture into the lost world.  But what to wear?

 
 
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 My Coastal Life Photography Competition
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Competition open to all students around the ocean. Take one photo of your favourite coastal scene or landscape and write 50 words about why it is so special. Send it to: competition@atlanticrising.org

Go to the GALLERIES or click here for more details.


 

The Climate Change Blog BBC School Report
Check out our Hot Topics

Since we left the UK in September 2009 we have been writing a regular blog for The Ecologist about the effects of climate change on communities around the Atlantic.  You can read it on our Hot Topics pages.  Why not use these stories as case studies in your school?

  Tim gets a grilling

As part of BBC School Report,Tim got woken at 6am by students from Cardinal Newman School in Brighton, who quizzed him about the project and then went on to grill St.Augustines College, Ghana about climate change in West Africa.  Read Tim's hazy recollections here.

 

"We didn't get to say goodbye so on behalf of all of us here at nations we want to thank you all for such a great experience and we will be waiting to find out where the buoy ends up."
Ria Jodah (Student, School of Nations, Guyana)
 
"It was pleasure, honour and heaps of fun having these blokes at home. They took advantage and benefited from every second of my time. I missed them from the very moment they left home. Good luck mates!!!"
Gil Serique (Amazonian ecologist, Santarem)
     
 
 


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