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Malaysia at risk of losing coastal areas


GEORGE TOWN: Warning about climate change is reaching our shores as rising sea levels will submerge many coastal areas around Malaysia and one beach in Penang is reportedly disappearing.

A recent finding by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) revealed that global warming is predicted to happen before 2040 with a 1.5°C rise in temperature causing more floods, droughts, storms and a rising sea level that will submerge coastal areas.

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