A study published in the journal Nature found that, staring in 1990, the sea has been rising at a rate 2.5 times faster than from 1900 to 1990.
This is quicker than scientists thought. Previous research suggested that between 1900 and 1990, sea levels rose about two-thirds of an inch every decade. The new study calculated that the rate was actually less than half an inch a decade, and today, the seas are rising at 1.2 inches every decade. Scientists say this is all caused by melting ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica and disappearing glaciers.
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