“One billion people underwater”: Researchers raise alarm about melting ice

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International scientists are warning about the increasing melting of the poles and ice caps and calling for more money for research in threatened areas. “Politicians must realize how vulnerable this area is,” Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, 65, France’s special envoy for the North and South Poles, said in Paris on Wednesday.

“If there were no ice on Earth, a billion people would be under water and a billion more would not have access to water,” Poivre d’Avor said in a message distributed via the online service X (formerly Twitter). He explained that the so-called cryosphere, which includes permafrost as well as ice at the poles and glaciers, makes up about 15 percent of the Earth’s surface. “Polar research needs new funding, it is underfunded,” he said.

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At the end of the meeting, a report on the state of the cryosphere will be presented. Melting ice brings with it many dangers such as rising sea levels, large amounts of CO2 emissions and the emergence of epidemic diseases. The effects of permafrost retreat in the Alps are increasingly being felt: the number of rockfalls increases significantly with each heat wave; Last summer, this number exceeded 200. (AFP)

Source : Blick