Science

Future Sea Level Rise: Top 10 Countries in Danger

These are the top 10 countries threatened by the six-meter sea-level rise probable in the not-too-distant future, according to the projected pace of global warming and ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica.

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Credit: Future Sea Level Rise: Top 10 Countries In Danger, originally published in The Daily Conversation, 2015, Music by AudioBlocks.com / Space Fighter Loop / Kevin MacLeod / incompetech.com (CC BY 3.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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