Residential houses submerged in floodwaters following heavy rainfall are seen at a town in Shantou, Guangdong province, China September 2, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change will put three times more people at risk of coastal flooding by 2050 than previously thought, according to a study published on Tuesday, with swathes of Asia and cities in North America and Europe all vulnerable to rising seas.
The research by Climate Central https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z, a U.S.-based non-profit climate science and news organisation, underscored the scale of the upheaval projected to unfold as global warming increasingly threatens some of the world's most densely-populated regions.
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