ARTICLE | Rising Sea Levels
India’s Andaman and Nicobar is sinking Scientists estimate that the Indian islands of Andaman and Nicobar will be uninhabitable by 2100 due to melting ice caps and rising sea levels. The Government of India would either have to adopt institutional changes or convince tribals, who are already vary of the government, to vacate the island Shivi sharma | Editorial Assistant
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cross the globe, over 600 million people live along coasts. Most of these places are less than 10 meters above sea level. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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(IPCC), a United Nations (UN) body that assesses the impact of climate change, released a special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in Changing Climate (SROCC) in September 2019. It announced that along with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, several
other low-lying islands would soon be uninhabitable due to the exponential rise in sea levels. Since the world is heating up, oceans are undergoing thermal expansion, i.e., water is expanding as it gets warmer. With land-based ice melting and glaciers
