Hockey gear and nets were then flown to the lake, which is 1.7 kilometres above sea level. ( Bradley Friesen) "It was a pretty surreal image and one that I don't think I'll ever forget." ...

If sea levels were to rise above the two-metre mark, Kopp said, it would flood areas that are home to 240 million people, including places in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia.

It’s an existential threat to the world’s coastal populations. Around 230 million people live less than 1 meter (3.2 feet) above sea level.

Even if the world sustains today’s level of warming, at 1.2 degrees, it could still trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and catastrophic sea level rise, the scientists found. The Greenland and ...