image: China SLR Hotspot Map. Maps from the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China, approval number is GS (2016) 1600.
Credit: Bing Liang, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Shanghai and China's coastal waters might be especially vulnerable to this century's predicted sea level rise, especially in the context of local land subsidence, river water discharge, and marine currents, per new analysis
Article URL: https://plos.io/4ehdioH
Article title: Rising tides: Unveiling the spatial and temporal evolution of sea level rise under climate change
Author countries: Australia, China.
Funding: This research was supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (23CXW034); andThe KeyResearch Project of the National Foundation of Social Science of China: Community Governance and Post-relocation Support in Cross District Resettlement [grant number 21&ZD183]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Rising tides: Unveiling the spatial and temporal evolution of sea level rise under climate change
Article Publication Date
17-Jun-2026
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.