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		<title>The No. 1 Trans-Atlantic Dating Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amongst the flotsam and jetsam of my office is a pile of scruffy leaves of A4 paper. Contained on these pages are several hundred letters written by the 11 to 14 year olds that we have met along our route through the UK. These letters are part of our ‘message in a bottle’ project and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=673&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plots and pans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are now full time expedition planning since visiting the last school in our UK network on Thursday. I spend my days touring camping shops, plaguing their hapless employees with questions about the precise battery life in various head torches, the exact weight of a frying pan and the dangers of chaffing when wearing trousers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=654&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to school</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for radio silence blog fans. Atlantic Rising has been very busy over the last couple of weeks visiting schools all over the country. It’s exciting now the first stage of our expedition has begun and we have already been to 10 of the 11 UK schools in our network. Visiting schools is a disconcerting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=626&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America loses ground to salinisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American conservationists have been putting a lot of energy into publicising the plight of North Carolina&#8217;s coastline. Low lying, swampy and sprinkled with well managed conservation areas, it hosts numerous endangered species including the red wolf and red cockaded woodpecker, as well as a splinter group of black bears. It was here that early settlers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=610&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How will the oceans change in a warmer world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A useful, if slightly simplistic, overview of how the oceans will be affected by increased atmospheric temperatures has just been published on Al Jazeera&#8217;s website.  It is a good introduction to some of the issues we will be exploring later this year. For those of us who live near the coast, the oceans have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=573&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The knock-on effects of sea level change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So sea level change will profoundly change the geography of our coastlines, but what are the knock on effects for inland areas. Population migration and increased competition for agricultural and water resources will lead to inland areas being put under profound stress.  A group of scientists in U.S.A are currently researching these impacts on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=560&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now, what I want is Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The climate change discourse is awash with facts but since 2007 there has been scientific consensus around an important one that &#8216;most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities&#8217;.  This was the statement issued by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001 from which no national scientific body of national or international standing now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=519&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>West African governments take action</title>
		<link>http://atlanticrising.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/west-african-governments-take-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Almamy Camara of UNDP stated that in Africa, including The Gambia, climate change is already having profound and irreversible impacts on economic, social and environmental systems. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=508&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone:  time running out for coastal slums</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 13:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high tide in this estuary is 150 cm higher than it was in 1996, according to meteorological officers. This is exacerbated during the rainy seasons when the upland streams flow into the estuary. There are 32 similar slum settlements along the coastline of Freetown, home to around 150,000 of the capital's one million residents.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=497&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tooling Up</title>
		<link>http://atlanticrising.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/tooling-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Crouch End surrounded by architectural models and CDs and watching Grace the goldfish who seems to have a problem with her swim bladder. It couldn&#8217;t be further removed from waking up in a tent on top of a Land Rover in Mauritania. Last night over supper in a pub we created a list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atlanticrising.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374485&amp;post=466&amp;subd=atlanticrising&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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