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GOCE in orbit (image: © ESA / AOES Medialab)

For decades, scientists have disagreed about whether the sea is higher or lower heading north along the east coast of North America.

Now, thanks to precision gravity data gathered by a European Space Agency satellite – and a new calculation method developed by researchers at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, working with researchers…

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Mediterranean Sea (image: Wikimedia Commons)

An exercise taking place this week, that simulates a tsunami striking the north-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas, will involve 19 states stretching from Cape Verde to Lebanon and from Spain to Finland.

It was borne out of an international meeting, hosted by the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton in September, which…