Sea levels could rise by 140 centimeters in Bangladesh by 2100 Bangladesh and parts of India could be hit by sea-level rise almost twice as high as previously thought due to land subsiding, even if the world takes ambitious action on climate change. Already prone to flooding and drought, Bangladesh has long been seen as vulnerable to a warming world, with a tenth of the delta that the country occupies just a meter above sea level. Now an analysis by Mélanie Becker at the University of La Rochelle, France, and her colleagues have found that parts …