face higher sea level rises than previously forecast as well as the threat of extreme rainfall and

.... Experts fear any disintegration could result in a half-metre rise in global sea levels.... The C

will worsen in the next 30 years, a new study warned. Sea levels are predicted to rise an average of

climate change spurring on rising sea levels and more intense storms.... New York has a similar law in

GHAR EL MELH, Tunisia( Reuters)-Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia's coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandbanks inside a lagoon, they are home to a centuries-old system of agriculture that climate change threatens to wipe out. Ali Garsi has farmed a 0.8-hectare( two-acre) plot in the Ghar El Melh wetlands, which lie some 60 km( 35 miles) north of Tunis, for 20 years.... Meanwhile, rainfall fell to below

. Parts of North Wales and eastern England are likely to be underwater by 2050 because of rising sea

Global sea levels have been steadily rising for years.... Unless we slow down this trend

from a rise in sea levels due to climate change than other countries, according to new research

how best to harness this natural defensive weapon against sea-level rise in the north-west. National

rise – maybe, it may go down, also – but it may rise one eighth of an inch in the next 497 years