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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Floating Cities

We humans are land lovers. But we do like to be beside the seaside. Oh we do like to be beside the sea. This is reflected in the fact that almost 50% of the people on this planet live in coastal areas. However, increased urbanisation and global warming mean that a projected 90% of the world’s biggest cities will be exposed to rising sea levels by 2050. So what should we do? Move back inland? Our next guest has an alternative solution. Marc Collins Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Oceanix