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Podcast: c2stories
Episode: Rising Sea Levels Start Below the Surface
Description: Picture Miami underwater or Lousiana lined with white sandy beaches.Â
Based on a comprehensive study published in the Nature Climate Communication journal on Monday, this future seems unavoidable. Hoping to model the atmospheric and oceanic changes from global warming that will impact Antarctica's ice shelves, scientists discovered a dooming issue.
The bottom of certain ice sheets are melting at faster rates than ever, and soon, nothing will keep the glaciers and large ice lands from falling into the ocean, inevitably increasing sea levels up to 10 feet.Â
The study zoomed in on the West An...