Rising sea level ink threatens to submerge many cities
According to scientists from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA), many cities may be engulfed by seawater in the next 100-200 years.
According to scientists from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA), many cities may be engulfed by seawater in the next 100-200 years.
Many cities may be submerged by rising sea levels
NASA said, the latest satellite data indicates that the sea level will rise by at least one meter within the next 100-200 years. The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting fast, the ocean warms and expands at a faster rate than before.
The cause of sea level rise is due to melting ice.(Photo: Liam Quinn / Flickr.)
Professor Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Sciences division, said that rising sea levels could completely submerge some island nations in the Pacific region . The low-lying states of the US such as Florida and some of the world's largest cities like Tokyo are in danger of disappearing.
NASA's predictions are based on results from a series of altitudes measuring sea level from the air. NASA and the CNES French Aviation Agency began launching sea level satellites in 1992.
" Very sensitive measuring devices. If mounted on a civil plane at 1,200 m altitude, they can detect the edge of a coin lying on the ground ," Professor Freilich said.
According to NASA, since 1992, oceans in the world have risen an average of 7.6 cm, some areas have a 23 cm rise. The cause of this phenomenon is due to ice melt . Greenland ice sheets melt with a volume of 303 billion tons per year over the past decade. Similarly, Antarctica also lost an average of 118 billion tons of ice per year.
- Sea level rise threatens more than 180 cities in the United States
- Big cities in Asia will be 'unprecedented extreme' weather
- Rising sea level threatens the biodiversity of TBD
- Flood tide threatens 21 great cities
- At the end of the century, the sea will submerge 4 million Americans
- Earth's groundwater was enough to submerge continents below 180 meters
- Many big cities will sink under the sea
- Sea level rise abnormally
- Climate change threatens cultural heritage
- Nigeria built a floating school
What will the ocean look like in 100 years? Seawater is rising at an unprecedented speed NASA: We are experiencing the peak of El Nino Earth turns slower because of global warming Sea water can rise by 6m in the future Japan exploits natural gas from burnt ice Warming temperatures change the face of Greenland Why does sea level rise faster than forecast?