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Singapore warily monitors rising sea levels as world marks Oceans Day

Rising sea levels pose an existential threat to Singapore, a low-lying southeastern Asian state. AFP

On World Oceans Day 2022, climate experts and activists aim to inform the public on the impact of human activity on the seas. It's a familiar topic in Singapore, where rising sea levels pose an existential threat to the city-state of 6 million inhabitants.

Dr Jędrzej Majewski, a research fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, plunges a scale into the water to measure the current sea level.

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