Climate change is becoming more dangerous every day, putting some nations at risk of disappearing underwater due to rising seas. This growing crisis threatens homes, lives, and cultures, making urgent action vital to prevent further loss. Find out which five countries are most at risk.

5 countries slowly sinking underwater due to climate change

The study focuses on the impact of the rising sea levels in the global south consists of countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. 

Sea level rising has put 100 million buildings at risk in global south, warn scientists. Does India face danger too?

Under the Falepili Union Treaty, agreed in 2023, Australia will accept 280 Tuvaluan citizens each year as permanent residents through a ballot-based ‘climate visa’ scheme. 

This entire country is being evacuated due to global warming! Have you visited it before?

New York City may soon sink under the sea predicts a new research. The city is sinking due to the weight of its towering skyscrapers. Coupled with the rising sea levels, this weight is pushing New York under at an average rate of 1-2 millimetres per year; some areas are sinking at twice this rate.

WION Explains | New York, the city that never sleeps, may soon lie in slumber under the sea

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sounded another ominous warning and said that a mass exodus "on a biblical scale" was possible around the world due to rising sea levels and climate change.

UN chief warns of exodus on ‘biblical’ scale around the world due to rising sea levels

Rising sea levels caused by climate change are flooding homes on the coast of Indonesia Central Java. Some residents who have been forced to abandon their Villages and start new lives elsewhere bear the brunt.

WION Climate Tracker | Indonesia: People forced to leave houses in Timbulsloko village

In the South of Spain, rising sea levels are threatening to engulf land, washing away homes and livelihoods. The coastline around the Ebro delta region in the southwest of the province of Tarragona in Catalonia in Spain is receding around five meters every year.

WION Climate Tracker | Sea level rise threatens land & livelihood in Spain's Ebro Delta

Villagers in one Fiji Island are being forced to relocate because of rising sea levels caused by global warming. As the community runs out of ways to adapt to the rising Pacific ocean levels, the 80 villagers are facing the painful decision of whether to leave behind their homes and relocate.

WION Climate Tracker | Rising sea levels forcing Fiji's villagers to relocate

China's sea levels reached their highest on record in 2021. The reason behind it is the rising water temperatures melting glaciers and polar ice caps.

Sea levels in China rising due to climate change

A report by Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group-I study issued on Monday stated that greater heat waves and droughts, increased rainfall events, and higher cyclonic activity are projected to occur across India and the subcontinent during the next several decades.

Deadly heat waves, floods, drought to occur across India, warns IPCC report from UN

The UN report on climate warned that global warming is on track to hit 1.5 degrees Celsius around 2030. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) said 1.

UN report warns more vicious floods, heatwaves, worsening droughts and rise in sea levels

A new study finds that in the future unless global emissions are reduced, up to 410 million people will be at risk from sea level rises. Published in the journal, Nature Communications, the paper finds that currently, 267 million people worldwide live on land less than 2 metres above sea level, this number is expected to rise to 410 million by the year 2100.

Rising sea level can endanger 410 million by 2100: Study

Climate change is triggering an unprecedented crisis as ice sheets continue to melt. Now, a new study posits that global sea levels could rise by 20 per cent by the end of this century owing to the continuous melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Melting of Antarctic ice sheet could raise sea levels by 20%, new study finds

Rising ocean levels could trigger a mass movement that would compel more than 13 million individuals living along the beachfront zones of the United States to migrate inland by 2100, according to a study by The University of Southern California scholars.