{"id":362846,"date":"2020-11-23T17:28:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=362846"},"modified":"2020-11-23T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:28:05","slug":"beaches-at-risk-of-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/beaches-at-risk-of-disappearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaches at risk of disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of the planet&#8217;s beaches could disappear by the end of the century due to rising sea levels and erosion caused by climate change, according to projections by Michalis Vousdoukas, from the European Commission&#8217;s Joint Research Centre, and his colleagues. They examined satellite images of coastline changes from 1984 to 2015 and extrapolated them for the coming decades based on two climate change scenarios: one optimistic and the other pessimistic. In the former, sea levels would rise by 50 centimeters (cm) and 95,000 kilometers (km) of beaches would be eroded worldwide (<em>Nature Climate Change<\/em>, March 2). In the latter, the sea would rise by about 80 cm and 132,000 km of beaches would be eroded. Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, in Africa, could lose more than 60% of their beaches. In absolute numbers, Australia would be one of the most affected countries, losing almost half (12,000 km) of its beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half of the planet&#8217;s beaches could disappear by the end of the century due to rising sea levels and erosion caused by climate change","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":362978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[217,200,240],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-362846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-climate","tag-environment","tag-geology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363565,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362846\/revisions\/363565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362846"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=362846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}