![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The new figures are the result of an improved global elevation dataset produced by Climate Central using machine learning, and revealing that coastal elevations are significantly lower than previously understood across wide areas ![]() New elevation data show that by midcentury frequent coastal flooding will rise higher than areas currently home to hundreds of millions of people EXECUTIVE SUMMARYĪs a result of heat-trapping pollution from human activities, rising sea levels could within three decades push chronic floods higher than land currently home to 300 million peopleīy 2100, areas now home to 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line Flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 2017. Source: World Meteorological Organization / Flickr ![]()
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