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Mongabay: With global sea levels going up at a rate of about 9 millimeters per year, the livelihoods of many coastal people in the world look increasingly threatened, especially in those parts of the world with limited financial or technical means to adapt. A rate of a thumb-width of water per year may not sound like much, but the half to one meter higher water levels mean that many coastal people will have to abandon their homes and fields before the end of the century.
Indonesia with its countless low-lying......
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Rising seas, sinking peat to swamp Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 13th, 2015
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