Satellite Science Improves Storm Surge Forecasting Around the World

A new online resource which will help coastguards, meteorological organisations and scientific communities predict future storm surge patterns has been created.
The Beach: a River of Sand

You get up in the morning and go out on the beach. It is the same beach you walked on yesterday. Tomorrow you will go to the same beach and it will be there as always. The tide may have brought in some new shells or possibly some trash, but the beach is the beach. It hasn’t gone anywhere. That is an illusion.
Greenland’s Hidden Meltwater Lakes Store Up Trouble

Scientists find evidence of vast ‘storage tanks’ of water deep below the melting Greenland ice sheet that could have a major effect on sea level rise.