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Study Finds Indian Ocean Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas; Climate Change Partly Responsible

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The rise—which may aggravate monsoon flooding in Bangladesh and India—could have future impacts on both regional and global climate. degrees Celsius, in the past 50 years, primarily because of human-generated emissions in greenhouses gases. The Indo-Pacific warm pool. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. Weiqing Han, CU, lead author.