Coastal communities around the globe are at a greater risk than ever after a grim new study offered insight into the continued loss of the polar ice sheets.

What’s happening?

A team of researchers has examined the correlation between the rise in global temperature and the current rate of sea-level rise. According to the study published in Communications Earth & Environment, even with climate initiatives and worldwide policy changes, more needs to be done to stem the tide. If we don’t, sea levels could continue to rise at an accelerated rate that will directly threaten millions of lives.

As the researchers noted, “Mass loss from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica has quadrupled since the 1990s.” The mass ice melting in the Arctic has created a “dominant source of global mea

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