Diagram showing how floating robot instruments track metrics in the sea.

Oceanographer Lynne Talley sounds alarm on rising seas

By Jack Austin and Kimberly Henrickson, Nov. 12, 2025 As global temperatures climb and seas continue to rise, oceanographer Lynne Talley warns that the accelerating melt of Antarctic ice threatens to erase entire island nations within decades. From her long-term research in the Southern Ocean, Talley has traced how warming waters and shifting circulation patterns …

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