Half the world's beaches could disappear by the end of the century because of rising sea levels and extreme storms, a study found

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• Half the world's sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century, according to a new study.
• Scientists projected that rising sea levels and more violent storms would swallow thousands of miles of beaches in Australia, the United States, West Africa, and other parts of the world.
• Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions could prevent up to 40% of that shoreline from disappearing, the researchers found.
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Scientists say that half of the world's sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century if climate change continues unchecked.

Researchers at the European Union's Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, used satellite images to track the way beaches have changed over the past 30 years and simulated how global warming might affect them in the future.

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