Rising seas threaten island nations with extinction
Climate change is rapidly raising sea levels, imperiling low-lying island nations with widespread flooding, land loss, and forced migration, highlighting a global injustice.
Global sea levels are accelerating, primarily due to melting ice and warming oceans from human-induced climate change. This rise, about 20 centimeters since the late 1800s and now speeding up to 3.7 millimeters annually, poses an existential threat to low-lying island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati.
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