Asian News International: New research has indicated that rising sea levels due to global warming would have major impacts around the world, with a maximum rise of one meter by 2100 endangering one in ten humans in low lying coastal areas. The research, presented at the International Scientific Cong...

SciDev.Net: Global sea levels will rise much higher than predicted by the end of this century, climate experts have warned -- a scenario which could have dire consequences for millions of people in the developing world. Just two years ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted a...

Environment News Service: About 600 million people, or nearly 10 percent of the world's population, live in low-lying areas at risk of flooding as sea levels rise due to climate change, according to research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Ev...

United Press International: Scientists at a Denmark conference say rising sea levels will have a major negative impact on 1-in-10 humans living in the Earth's low-lying coastal areas. Research presented during this week's International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows the up...

Hindu: The screen came to life with a bearded middle-aged man named Lalmohan Sheikh aboard a boat pointing to the horizon and saying: "There used to a church over there during my childhood but the hungry river gobbled it up." This was the opening scene of a documentary film produced by a n...

Reuters: California's farms and cities may be left high and dry by prolonged drought, but climate change is expected to leave much of the state's fabled shoreline awash in excess seawater before too long. Nearly 500,000 people and $100 billion worth of property in coastal California are at risk of s...

Herald: Climate scientists have warned that sea levels could rise by twice as much as previously projected as they presented the latest research on global warming. A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted a sea level rise of 7in to 23in by the end of the centur...

Asian News International: New research has indicated that rising sea levels due to global warming would have major impacts around the world, with a maximum rise of one meter by 2100 endangering one in ten humans in low lying coastal areas. The research, presented at the International Scientific Cong...

Guardian: Global sea levels could rise much higher this century than previously projected, raising the threat level for millions of people who live in low-lying areas, new research suggests. Scientists at a climate change summit in Copenhagen say changes in the polar ice sheets could raise sea level...

National: In this obscure village perched on the rugged coastline along the Bay of Bengal, climate change exudes a taste – the taste of salt. As recently as five years ago, water from the village well tasted sweet to Mohammed Jehangir. But now a glassful, flecked with tiny white crystals, tast...