The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
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Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.
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Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.
Image of the Day Unique Imagery Snow and Ice Remote Sensing
Scientists measure ice’s gravitational pull on a pair of satellites, allowing them to estimate ice loss and its contribution to sea level rise.
Scientists are probing environmental data from reanalysis models in the hopes of finding answers.
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