A study published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Climate Change suggests that more than half of the world’s sandy beaches could be gone by 2100.
“We need to understand that nature tends to always change and the shoreline is very dynamic,” Michalis Vousdoukas, an oceanographer and lead author of the study, told Travel + Leisure.
Even though it is typical for shorelines to retreat, under normal circumstances the back part of the beach would also change so that the overall size of the sandy area would be maintained. The problem is that humans have typically constructed these beach backs, indicating that the beaches will begin to disappear.
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