A World of Water exhibition asks: ‘Can the seas survive us?’

A World of Water exhibition asks: ‘Can the seas survive us?’

Water is at the heart of the disruption wrought by climate change. The seas, once seen as vast and stable, are now unpredictable and restless. That tidy, looping diagram of the water cycle once pinned up in primary school classrooms – clouds, rivers, evaporation and rain – now reads more like a fragmented recollection than a dependable process. Human impact has cracked that once-stable loop wide open. Sea levels inch upward year on year. Drought…