NewsStudy: Rising Sea Level Puts 150 Million at RiskFor 150 million people living in coastal areas around the creased coastal storm surges. Soon we will have to make very world, rising sea level will become a genuine threat, accord- hard decisions in the U.K. and globally: which coastal area ing to a new study which found evidence the sea level has is going to be protected and which could be abandoned? It been rising over the past 200 years – and continues to rise. means that as a civilization we are not able to protect some of Ocean warming and glaciers/ice sheets melting are the our cultural heritage, unique beaches and cliffs.” causes of the sea level rise, said Dr. Svetlana Jevrejeva from “Trends and acceleration in global and regional sea levels the U.K.’s National Oceanography Center (NOC), who coau- since 1807” was published in the Global and Planetary Change thored the scienti