Tens of millions more may be at risk amid rising sea levels, study finds

Teona Gherasim

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are, a new study said. Researchers studied hundreds of scientific studies and hazard assessments, calculating that about 90% of them underestimated baseline coastal water heights by an average of one foot (30 centimeters), according to  Wednesday’s study in the journal Nature . It’s a far