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Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands islands
2014-04-08 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Sea levels are rising at the highest rate in thousands of years, putting at risk low-lying islands around the world. In a new study published in Nature Conservation, researchers found that projected rises in sea level stand to swamp more than 10,000 islands, displacing human communities and wiping many unique species off the face of the earth. Climate change is leading to rising oceans in a two-fold way. First, increasing temperatures at the poles are melting ice-sheets, discharging more and more...
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