Climate change: half of the world’s beaches could disappear by the year 2100

A recent Nature Climate Change article from the Joint Research Center of the European Community (JRC) warns of half of the beaches disappearing by 2100, due to rising sea levels due to climate change. Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States, China and Russia would be the main affected in the loss of beach extensions.

“We are observing the enormous iceberg detached from Antarctica, the melting of millions of tons of ice in Greenland, soils that remained eternally frozen, now melted. Concrete facts that contribute to the rise in sea level,” said Horacio de Belaustegui, Pte. of Fundación Biosfera in an opinion note, to which he added “It is already being warned on the beaches of the Delta, Berisso and Ensenada, and they will increase, putting at risk the biodiversity, the settlements and contractions of this coastal strip and the banks of the streams, that will be aggravated by increasingly intense sudestadas.”

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Extract of opinion note published in the newspaper El Día: https://www.eldia.com/…/2020-3-8-2-25-3-ya-se-esta-advirtie…