Mumbai at risks of being “wiped out” by 2050 due to rising seas, reveals study

New research has revealed that rising seas could affect three times more population by 2050 than it was earlier thought, and, Mumbai, India’s financial capital, is at the risk of being ''wiped out''.

According to a report in The New York Times, a research paper was produced by Climate Central. It is a science organisation based in New Jersey The research paper was published in the journal ''Nature Communications''. The projections of the research, however, don't account for future population growth or land lost to coastal erosion.

The report said, “the authors have developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea-level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic."

According to the research paper produced by Climate Central, about 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by mid-century.

Much of Mumbai is at risk of being wiped out, the new research suggests. Built on what was once a series of islands, the city's historic downtown core is particularly vulnerable, the report said.

"Overall research shows, that countries should start preparing now for more citizens to relocate internally," Dina Lonesco, International Organization for Migration, was quoted as saying.

International Organization for Migration is an inter-governmental group that coordinates actions on migrations and development.

"We've been trying to ring the alarm bells. We know that it's coming. There is a little modern precedent for this scale of population movement," Lonesco was quoted as saying in the report.