New analysis triples risk from rising sea levels

New analysis triples risk from rising sea levels

Flooding in the coastal city of Cebu, Philippines. Credit: JLloa, Pixabay

In three decades from now more than 300 million people’s homes could face annual coastal flooding and new high tide levels could cover land currently inhabited by around 150 million – many of them in Asia.

These forecasts, published in the journal Nature, are three times greater than current prevailing estimates, and that’s assuming moderate cuts to global carbon emissions.

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