{
  "id": 11156038,
  "title": "Rising seas could cost Australia economic losses of $855 billion, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/rising-seas-could-cost-australia-economic-losses-of-855-billion-study",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-01T08:45:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/rising-seas-could-cost-australia-economic-losses-of-855-billion-study-finds/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Rising sea levels due to climate change could damage hundreds of thousands of properties and millions of hectares of land along Australia’s coastline by 2100, according to a recent study. This could cost the country an economic loss of $855 billion, researchers estimate. To calculate the costs, researchers in Australia used existing projections of sea […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}