Guy Edwardes / Jurassic Coast at West Bay, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. December 2016.

Ernie Janes / Low tide on the Wash, Snettisham, Norfolk, England, UK, February.

Ernie Janes / Coastline with pier and groynes from Overstrand to Cromer with storm clouds overhead, Norfolk, UK, July 201

Ernie Janes / Cliff collapse over sea defence, Trimingham, Norfolk, UK, June

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Diver close to wave breaker concrete blocks, Xiaoliuqiu Island, Taiwan

Ross Hoddinott / RF - Groyne/sea defense at Dawlish Warren at dawn, South Devon, UK. January 2018. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Ashley Cooper / Coastal flood defences in the Sunderbans a low lying area of the Ganges Delta that is vulnerable to sea level rise, India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Coastal flood defences in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. The building behind the embankment is lower than the high ti...

Ashley Cooper / Coastal flood defences in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. The houses behind the embankment are lower than the high tid...

Ashley Cooper / Canal going from the sea to the reclaimed polder land in Holland, north of Amsterdam, which is some 20 feet lower than the sea. With 50% of the Netherlands below sea level, it is incredibly vulnerable...

Ashley Cooper / The Breach at Alkborough. This is a break in the sea defences flooding farmland to creating 150 hectares of wetland protecting urban Humber Estuary, Eastern England, UK August 2008

Ashley Cooper / Building a new sea wall flood defences in Blackpool to protect the town from climate change induced sea level rise. Lancashire, England, UK. February 2008

Ashley Cooper / Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast. This section of coast is the fastest eroding point in the UK and speeding up due to global warming induced sea level rise and increased stormy weather. August 2006

Ashley Cooper / Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast. This section of coast is the fastest eroding point in the UK and speeding up due to global warming induced sea level rise and increased stormy weather. August 2006

Ashley Cooper / Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast. This section of coast is the fastest eroding point in the UK and speeding up to to global warming induced sea level rise and increased stormy weather. August 2006

Ashley Cooper / The Thames barrier designed to protect the capital from storm surge flooding, London, England, UK. May 2007

Ashley Cooper / The Breach at Alkborough. This is a break in the sea defences flooding farmland to create 150 hectares of wetland protecting urban Humber Estuary, Eastern England, UK August 2008

Ashley Cooper / The Breach at Alkborough. This is a break in the sea defences flooding farmland to create 150 hectares of wetland protecting urban Humber Estuary, Eastern England, UK August 2008

Ashley Cooper / The Breach at Alkborough. This is a break in the sea defences flooding farmland to create 150 hectares of wetland protecting urban Humber Estuary, Eastern England, UK August 2008

Ashley Cooper / Composite shot showing coastal erosion at Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK. The first shot taken in 2010 shows the steps leading to the beach, the second shot taken in 2015 shows the two concrete blocks that...

Ashley Cooper / Ship wrecked by Hurricane Bepe on Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu. March 2007

Ashley Cooper / Blackpool battered by storms on 18 January 2007. The storms that day killed 13 people across the UK in hurricane force winds. January 2007

Ashley Cooper / Storm force southerly winds whip up the sea and batter the Orkney mainland coast, with waves crashing over the 80 foot cliffs of Mull Head on Deerness. October 2011

Ashley Cooper / Second World War lookout post leaning over eroding cliff near Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Second World War pill box on the beach, this was originally on the cliffs above but fell due to coastline erosion. Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Second World War lookout post leaning over eroding cliff near Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Smashed concrete sea defences at Ulrome, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Loic Poidevin / Coastal defences, Camargue, France, May 2017.

Ernie Janes / Cromer beach at low tide with groynes, North Norfolk, England, UK, September

Dave Bevan / Rock pipit (Anthus petrosus) feeding from a sea wall, Ceredigion, Wales, UK, October.

Dave Bevan / Rock pipit (Anthus petrosus) feeding from a sea defence wall, Ceredigion, Wales, UK, October.

Dave Bevan / Rock pipit (Anthus petrosus) feeding from rocks, Ceredigion, Wales, UK, October.

Ernie Janes / View of Runton beachw with sea defences at low tide, viewed from Beeston hill, North Norfolk, England, UK. July 2017.

Ross Hoddinott / RF - Groyne at Dawlish Warren, Devon, UK. January 2016. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Robin Chittenden / Sea defences, Sea Palling, Norfolk, England, UK, December 2014

Robin Chittenden / Sea defences, Sea Palling, Norfolk, England, UK, December 2014

Ernie Janes / RF- Excavator with grapple used for building sea defences at Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, March. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Pascal Tordeux / Stormy waves on the shore, with groynes, Berck, Pas De Calais, France, May 2015.

Alan Williams / Rocks and boulders placed at bottom of mud and clay cliff to prevent erosion by sea at high tide, Wirral Coast, River Dee Estuary, England, UK. March 2014.

Alan Williams / Rocks and boulders placed at bottom of mud and clay cliff to prevent erosion by sea at high tide, Wirral Coast, River Dee Estuary, England, UK. March 2014.

Ernie Janes / The Wash and sea defences, Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, UK, February 2015.

Ernie Janes / Sea wall and housing vulnerable to flooding around The Wash, Snettisham, Norfolk, England, UK, February 2015.

Ernie Janes / Sea wall and housing vulnerable to flooding around The Wash, Snettisham, Norfolk, England, UK, February 2015.

David Woodfall / Sunset over Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood on high tides...

David Woodfall / Sunset over Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nature Reserve, agricultural land transformed into wetland reserve, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT a...

David Woodfall / Marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and lyme grass (Elymus sp) washed by exceptionally high spring tide, Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK. The Environment Agency and the WWT has...

David Woodfall / Common reed (Phragmities communis), Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Environment Agency to create new sal...

David Woodfall / Common reed (Phragmities communis), Steart Marshes Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Somerset, UK, February 2015. This area has been allowed to flood by the WWT and the Environment Agency to create new sa...