Bucharest - The Black Sea is rising by about two millimetres every year along the Romanian coast, according to a statement issued by the Romanian Institute for Marine Research yesterday. "The main cause is global warming melting the polar ice caps," said the institute director, Mr Simion Nicolaev.
"The rise in the water level as well as erosion is affecting the Romanian coast," he added. In the last 30 years the country has lost about 27 sq km along its coast.
