Unknowncountry readers have always been fascinated bydiscoveries of ancient, underwater cities, like one beinginvestigated off the coast of Cuba. U.K. science advisor SirDavid King says there will be more of these to investigatein the future?but they’ll be places we’re living in rightnow. He says, “On current trends, cities like London, NewYork and New Orleans will be among the first to go.?
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Global warming could put three of India’s biggest cities?Bombay, Calcutta and Madras?under water by 2020. There’s evidence it’s happened before: an ancient underwater city has been discovered there. It could also happen to us?if the ice caps melt, London, New York, Miami, Sydney, Shanghai and Tokyo could all end up under water.
Geoffrey Lean writes in the Independent about a German study that says the rate of climate change will soon exceed anything that’s happened “in the last million years.” If nothing changes, the West Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice cap will begin to disappear, leading to sea levels rises which will submerge many coastal cities.
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A mysterious underwater stone platform has been discovered in the Bahamas. Researchers Greg and Lora Little found the huge, three-layered platform lying under just 10 feet of water off northern Andros Island while searching for answers to other underwater mysteries.
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