"A heavily illustrated book and narrative about the threat of rising sea levels around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Part I: Changing chemistry -- Kure Atoll, Hawai'i: plastic, plastic everywhere -- The Arabian Sea: regime shift -- Camden, Maine: salt, fat, acid, (no) meat -- The Cook Islands: feeding the fever -- San Francisco Bay: seven-layer dip -- Part II: Strengthening storms -- Houston: we have a problem -- Hamburg, Germany: river city at risk -- New York, New York: capital of capital -- San Juan, Puerto Rico: Poder, Despacito -- Kutupalong Camp, Bangladesh: human tides -- Part III: Warming waters -- The Arctic Ocean: when the ice melts -- Pisco, Peru: Enso and the end of fish -- The North Atlantic: in deep -- Kisite, Kenya: coral collapse -- Pine Island Glacier: what happens in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica -- Part IV: Rising seas -- Shanghai, China: sink, sank, sunk -- Hampton Roads, Virginia: bye, bye, birdies -- Ben Tre, Vietnam: doing more with less -- The Thames Estuary, Britain: from Gravesend to Allhallows -- Ise, Japan: tradition for the future -- What's next? / by Marina Psaros -- Toward transilience / by Christina Conklin.