Chinese Cities Most at Risk from Rising Sea Levels

Fast-Growing Coastal Megacities, Home to 145 Million, Face Flood Threat from Climate Change

A study by Climate Central, a non-profit news organization focusing on climate science, showed that 12 other nations have more than 10 million people living on land that would be destroyed should the earth’s temperature rise to 4 degrees Celsius.

As well as China, in descending order, starting with the countries most at risk, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, the U.S., the Philippines, Egypt, Brazil, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Netherlands are extremely vulnerable.