The UK's coastline could look dramatically different in the next 30 years, a map has revealed.
New data suggests that large parts of Wales, Kent and other parts of the country could regularly fall below sea level by the year 2050.
While the coronavirus pandemic has paused our lives for more than a year, another global crisis has continued to threaten our future - climate change.
The threat of this issue on a local level has been highlighted by Climate Central, a non-profit news organisation focused on climate science.
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This has been compounded by the IPCC climate report, which predicts global warming of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, which could spell disaster for our seaside towns, KentLive reports.
The risk of flooding is said to be three times higher than previously forecast, and there are three main reasons as to why the sea rises in hotter temperatures.
Heat makes the oceans expand, and ice at high altitude melts at higher points as huge ice sheets at the poles melt faster than they form.
Experts have indicated that causes of global warming by humans include burning fossil fuels - coal, gas and oil - factory farming and increasing livestock production and deforestation.
Kent beaches such as Folkestone, Dungeness, and Whitstable are just a few of those expected to be completely submerged by water by 2050.
In north Wales, Llandudno, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Shotton and Queensferry are also vulnerable to flooding.
In the North West the likes of Blackpool beach, Lytham St Annes, Formby, Crosby and Southport are at risk of sea levels rising and coastal flood threats.
Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe, Skegness and swathes of towns in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk are also noted for as at risk.
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