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Reporter returns to UK after 28,000-mile expedition

A former regional press reporter who quit her job at Press Association to educate the world about climate change is set to return to the UK after a 28,000-mile journey.

Lynn Morris joined two university friends last year in starting an expedition to circumnavigate the Atlantic Ocean along the one metre contour line – the level scientists predict sea level will rise by 2100.

The team, which set up a charity called Atlantic Rising, are now returning to the UK after visiting 21 countries to educate school pupils over the last 15 months and their ship is due to arrive in Southampton on 9 December.

Lynn, 30, worked for the Mid Devon Gazette, Dorset Echo and Bournemouth Daily Echo before joining PA and her team were able to carry out the challenge after winning a bursary from the Royal Geographical Society.

  • The Atlantic Rising team, from left, Will Lorimer, Lynn Morris and Tim Bromfield are pictured in the Sahara.
  • She told HTFP: “It has been a bit of an adventure. The idea behind the journey was to explore what could be lost if the sea level continues to rise and we have seen some horrifying examples of how climate change is already affecting people around the edge of the Atlantic.

    “We have also seen some inspirational projects tackling climate change.”

    During their expedition, the team got stuck in the mud in Mauritania, shipwrecked in Guinea Bissau, fell into rebel hands in Cote d’Ivoire, travelled hundreds of miles up the Amazon in Brazil, contracted Dengue fever in Venezuela and encountered rattle snakes in America.

    They travelled around the edge of the Atlantic in a specially-adapted Land Rover taking a route through Europe, Africa, across the ocean by containership to Brazil then north through Mexico and the East coast of the US to Boston.

    During their travels, Atlantic Rising has created a network of 5,000 students in low-lying communities around the Atlantic Ocean.

    For further information on their trip, visit atlanticrising.org.