The melting of the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the "Doomsday glacier", and global sea level rise may affect Sochi, St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don.
This was announced by the director of the Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Siberian Federal University Ruslan Sharafutdinov in an article in the scientific journal The Nature.
"There are cities and entire states located on the ocean, the existence of which directly depends on changes in its level. In Russia, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Rostov-on-Don may suffer from global sea level rise," Sharafutdinov believes.
The temperature at the South Pole of the Earth has become 4-9 degrees Celsius higher than in the past centuries. Climatologists are particularly concerned about two large Antarctic ice massifs: the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located on the west coast of the southernmost continent of the planet.
In Russia, glaciers are melting faster than in other regions, ttelegraf.ru notes.
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