Atlantic Rising

Can fashion fur be guilt free? A project in Louisiana believes the answer is yes - if you are wearing swamp rat

Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela

Campaigners fear the construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil is just the start with many more being planned in the Amazon basin

Global sea level rise poses a big challenge for the small country of Guyana but mangrove planting offers a cost-effective way of protecting coastal regions

Europe's demand for cheap meat is been fed by an increasing demand for soya feed from the Amazon but it comes at a cost - deforestation

Water buffalo may not be the most pressing threat to the Amazon as a whole but on the river’s floodplain they are doing serious damage

Conservation efforts towards protecting migrating bird habitats in Europe may be doomed to failure unless we tackle climate change and protect Africa's coastlines

In the latest blog the Atlantic Rising team look at how rising sea levels are poisoning local water sources in Western Ghana

The slums of Accra in Ghana are being used as a dumping ground for Western consumer waste, including toxic electrical components.

An ambitious sea defence scheme in Ghana could have been successful but the job is not finished and thousands of homes still flood annually

If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon Liberia's remaining rainforest cover is likely to go the same way as its neighbours in Cote d'Ivoire

Unregulated sand extraction in Sierra Leone is good for business but wreaks havoc on the coastal environment

Most people love their home town. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum?

The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries

Children are learning to use stoves made from cow dung and termite mud in a battle to reduce consumption of timber for fuel

Gambia needs serious adaption policies rather than monthly clean-up days to cope with rising sea levels and drainage problems

When your island goes from slave staging-post to an outpost on the frontier of rising seas, fate has truly dealt you a poor hand...

In Gambia's coastal towns one of the country's chief assets - pristine beaches - is being steadily eroded. In a move to make King Cnut proud, the government is shipping in sand...

The world's largest ever mangrove planting project is underway in Senegal, providing work, habitat and coastal defence all in one

When inadequate coastal walls only make the effects of sea level rise worse, is it time to move further inland?

If you're willing risk life and limb on a sea journey towards better economic prospects, what will you risk when climate change has devastated your home?

France's tourist haven Mont Saint Michel is threatened. A new scheme to recreate the rock will have dramatic, albeit short-lived, results

In the first post of a new blog, Lynn Morris outlines how and why she and two team-mates are about to trace the contour of 2100's Atlantic Ocean...