Sea level rise could be larger than expected

Scientists have warned that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to an acceleration of the rate that ice is melting in Greenland and Antarctica.

Their new study projects that if the global temperature rises by more than two degrees, this would submerge one point eight million square kilometres of land.

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