Coastal regions face submersion as ocean heat at record levels: Report

A report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has revealed that the Indian coastal region is submerging faster than other coastal areas in the world, as heat content in the Indian Ocean in the Asia region has increased since the 1990s and reached a new record in 2025.

- JITENDRA CHOUBEY

According to the WMO’s ‘State of the Climate in Asia 2025’ report, sea level in the Asia region reached its highest degree since satellite records began in 1999. The rates of sea-level rise from 1999-2025 along much of the northern Indian Ocean coast exceeded the global average of approximately 3.6 mm per year, reaching around 4.9 mm per year along the Indian coast and more than 6 mm per year in the Kuroshio Current region on the western side of the North Pacific.