The seas have been rapidly rising for the past 30 years, according to NASA's latest data. NASA's Sea Level Change science team has reported a rapid increase in the global sea level, rising by 9.
According to a recent study by Stanford researchers, investments in the environment are paying off for a California county where efforts aimed to restore the natural ecosystem are simultaneously mitigating the effects of sea-level rise.
Because just 15% of the world's coastal regions are biologically intact, researchers call for measures to conserve undamaged places and urgent efforts to rehabilitate degraded areas.
Throughout the last generation, the pace of ocean warming has risen, and this rate has accelerated in previous decades. Ocean level was 2.6 inches higher in 2014 than it had been in 1993, the maximum annual average in the geological record. Ocean levels increasing quickly indicate severe concern.
Global warming is expected to completely change the variety and dissemination of some marine species, boost the occurrence and intensity of toxic algal blooms, intensify flood plain damage, develop new risks from exotic species, degrade beach safety, and displace or eradicate native wildlife.