About Sliding Shores

Sliding Shores is an interactive 3D globe that lets you drain the oceans down to the Mariana Trench or flood Earth past the peak of Everest. Drag the slider, watch coastlines retreat or vanish, and get a tactile sense of how much of our planet is hidden underwater and how thin the layer of habitable land really is.

This is a visualisation, not a forecast. Real sea-level rise depends on ice mass, thermal expansion, isostatic rebound, and a long list of factors a slider can't represent. Treat the extreme positions as “what if” geometry, not climate science.

Data & credits

Elevation: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (2022). ETOPO 2022 15 Arc-Second Global Relief Model. NOAA NCEI. doi.org/10.25921/fd45-gt74

Contact

Questions, corrections, or feedback? Email [email protected].