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Expedition cruises are often smaller, focus on less-visited or harder to reach destinations, and have onboard specialists to educate passengers.
Expedition cruises are often smaller, focus on less-visited or harder to reach destinations, and have onboard specialists to educate passengers.
In the past few months, newspapers across the globe have been flooded with a debate over new studies projecting a higher and faster sea-level rise by the next century, which would sound the death-knell for low-lying countries and coastal cities. The debate has been fuelled by varying interpretations of the impact of melting ice, and by a new projection of up to 1.4m in sea-level rise by 2100, rather than a 2007 projection by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) of between 18cm and 59cm by that time, depending on a range of greenhouse-gas emission scenarios. Th...