The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice sheets are increasingly pouring more water into the oceans each year. Researchers also solved a puzzling mismatch in sea level measurements that had lingered for years.
Source: ScienceDaily | Global Warming
ScienceDaily | Global Warming
- Sea level rise is speeding up and scientists now know exactly why
- UNESCO warns a tsunami in the Mediterranean is inevitable
- Humpback whale breaks migration record with 15,000 kilometer ocean journey
- Antarctic glacier collapses at record speed as Hektoria retreats 15 miles in just 15 months
- Giant squid discovery uncovers a hidden deep-sea world off Australia
- Deadly “red sky” solar storm from 800 years ago discovered in ancient trees
- Scientists discover the Southern Ocean is “sweating” more as climate change intensifies
- Humans returned to Britain 500 years earlier than scientists thought after the last ice age
- Scientists stunned as volcano cloud destroys methane in the atmosphere
- Scientists say a critical Atlantic ocean current is weakening and the world could feel the impact
