Bhubaneswar, July 15 -- American space agency NASA has warned that the world may witness massive coastal flooding starting in the mid-2030s due to a "wobble" in the moon's orbit.

According to a study by NASA, Earth is expected to see a four-fold rise in the number of floods as the lunar cycle accompanied by the climate crisis will lead to a rise in sea levels.

The study by members of the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team from the University of Hawaii has revealed that the long-term geological processes are leading to rise in far northern coastlines' land areas and flooding will begin in these areas after a decade.

Published in the journal 'Nature Climate Change', the study is the first to take into account all known oceanic and astron...