One of Britain’s most pressing challenges is to ensure its water supply and flood control infrastructure is not “pushed over the edge” by climate change.

Do you live on the coast? Leave a comment about what your community is doing — or should be doing — to prepare for sea level rise.

That the weather has an impact on the U.S. economy might not come as a surprise. On hot days we splurge on an extra scoop of ice cream and use more energy to air-condition our homes.

The Obama administration’s budget proposal includes a provision to create the Climate Service once more, bringing the debate back to the forefront. What happens to the Climate Service is now in the hands of Congress.

Although we may not see the expansion of dead zones in the immediate future, this is just one example of numerous ways climate change is affecting the Earth’s oceans.