Environment
fromWIRED
1 week agoThe Oceans Are Going to Rise-but When?
West Antarctic glaciers appear to be in irreversible retreat, risking multi-meter sea-level rise within decades to centuries and threatening hundreds of millions of people.
Franck Detcheverry, Miquelon's 41-year-old mayor, trudges up a grassy hill. The view isn't too bad, huh? he jokes. The ocean sparkles 40 metres below the empty mound. The sound of a man playing the bagpipes, as if serenading the sea, floats up from the shoreline. This hill will be the location of his new home and those of all his fellow villagers.