Ice Sheets Melting
¥Massive Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets that together hold enough water to raise sea level 12 meters (39 feet) are melting at accelerating rates
¥A 10-meter (33-foot) sea level rise would displace more than 600 million people
¥Sea level could rise 2 meters (6 feet) by 2100
¥Even a 1-meter rise in sea level would partially inundate crop-producing river deltas in countries such as Bangladesh and Viet Nam
Climate change threatens food security and could eventually create hundreds of millions of climate refugees.
Photo Credit: Yann Arthus-Bertrand