A recent study revealed that the Earth is approaching a major "environmental disaster," even if the world takes the initiative to stop gas emissions starting today, because the damage has already occurred due to human actions.

According to the study published in the newspaper "Nature Climate Change," Greenland Island, the largest in the world, will lose a very large amount of its ice sheet, regardless of current global efforts.

The study stated that 3.3 percent of the ice sheet covering Greenland will inevitably melt, equivalent to 110 trillion tons of ice.

When this amount of ice on the island melts, it means the rise of sea and ocean levels by more than 30 centimeters, which poses a threat to many coastal countries.

Experts see that these predictions are more pessimistic than previous reports, while the study did not specify an exact timeframe for this disaster to occur, starting from the island that exceeds an area of two million square kilometers.

However, researchers suggested that these major environmental disturbances on Earth would occur between our current moment and the year 2100.

This summer, the world experienced a series of disasters, said to be primarily caused by climate change, after European capitals recorded record temperatures and severe drought seasons, amid fires sweeping several Mediterranean forests.

William Colgan, a researcher at the Geological Studies Center of Denmark and Greenland, and one of the study's participants, said that what is required is to find plans to deal with the ice that will melt in the near future.

If the sea level rises between 25 and 30 centimeters by 2050 along the US coasts, this warns of disasters, according to experts, because it means a fivefold increase in the occurrence of destructive floods.

As for moderate floods, or those described as less severe, their occurrence will increase tenfold, which warns of a huge rise in human and material losses.

"Global warming"

As for other countries, such as low-lying islands and developing countries like Bangladesh, they are more exposed to disasters, especially since they have not done much to contain the repercussions of climate change.

When this significant rise in sea water levels occurs, the affected countries will need billions of dollars to adapt to the new situation.