Sultana Quoted in ScienceAlert Article on Rising Sea Levels

July 11, 2023

ScienceAlert

Farhana Sultana

Geography & the Environment Department

Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

South Asia Center

Climate Change

United States

Water

ScienceAlert

Farhana Sultana

NASA recently released a chilling animation showing just how far sea levels have risen in the three short decades its satellites have been monitoring them. In those 30 years, sea levels have risen by about 3.5 inches.

NASA says the animation "is designed to be seen through a circle, using the visual metaphor of looking out the porthole of a boat and watching years of sea level rise transpire.

"This can't continue as systems that become more unstable and unpredictable will harm more in chaotic ways," says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.

Read more in the ScienceAlert article, "NASA Shows What 30 Years of Rising Seas Feels Like in Chilling New Animation."