St. Petersburg, August 24, 2016, 13:28 – REGNUM by the end of this century, sea level rise may reach 3.5 meters. It is a threat to coastal cities, whose residents make up more than 20% of the total population of the world, the chairman of the working group “Sea coast” of the Council of Russian Academy of Sciences Leonid Zhindarev .
According to the specialist, is now the world ocean level rises by 3 mm per year, but the speed of the process increases. Climate change affects the state of the coastline near the seaside towns – sea erodes beaches, disrupting the natural strengthening of the coast. Following the disappearance of beaches begin the destruction of themselves off the coast, said the scientist.
Rising sea levels and more intense erosion of the shoreline inevitable to deal with such a process is possible only through artificial restoration of beaches, he said Zhindarev during a press conference in Petersburg TASS press center.
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