Atlantic Rising is a charity embarking on a 32,000km journey to circumnavigate the Atlantic overland. Along the way they are creating an educational network between 15,000 students in low-lying coastal communities. Through photography, films and writing, they are also documenting what will be lost if predictions come true. Here's part of an email we recently recieved from the team:

Atlantic Rising has now been on the road for more than a month and we thought it was about time to send you an update. The Nikwax products that you send us are used on a several times daily basis. We are using the towels and the washing products regularly. The sunscreen and insect repellent and tent sprays have really come into their own since we arrived in Africa where it is pretty hot and the number of insects has dramatically increased - so thank you very much.

Our mission to travel around the Atlantic on the 1meter contour, predicted to be the new coastline of the ocean in 100 years, has been going well. We have put about 6,000miles on the clock of our Defender 110 since we left the UK in September and we are now in Dakar.

Our trip has taken us from Mont Saint-Michel in northern France, to the suburbs of Dakar via the Banc d’Arguin in Mauritania. We have now visited 13 schools from the remote Isle of Tiree in Scotland to Mariama Ba on Goree Island, Senegal famous for its connections with the slave trade. We have thousands of school children in our network beginning to communicate with each other through the social networking site for schools.

We have also visited several interesting projects working on climate change issues, spoken to various academics and canvassed the opinions of local people.

In Morocco we met with a researcher who looks at how women’s lives are particularly badly affected by changes in the climate that make it more difficult for them to fetch water, find firewood or farm productively. But in many cases their position in society makes it difficult for them to change their situation.

In Mauritania we saw how a small fishing village called Iwik is slowly losing buildings, including a school, to high tides and yet the community doesn’t want to move inland further from their only source of livelihood their boats.

We are also visiting some very positive projects, later this week we will be meeting an NGO who have helped people in Senegal replant millions of mangroves.

As well as work we have been having a few adventures – Will stepped on a sea urchin while attempting to fish from a beach in Western Sahara and we got the car stuck in the mud on a beach in Mauritania (watch the video of this here http://www.atlanticrising.org/gallery/video-view.asp?id=8 )

Best wishes

Lynn, Tim and Will