Synopsis
Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates how climate change is impacting the ocean.
- Programme: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
- Series: 2020: Planet Earth - A User's Guide
- Episode: Water World
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2020
- Geography | Weather and climate | Climate, weather and cloud types | Climatic zones
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