Vox: The acceleration of sea-level rise since the 1990s may have been a much bigger deal than anyone realized.
That's the upshot of an interesting new study in Nature, which argues that past research had overestimated the pace of global sea-level rise between 1900 and 1990 by about 30 percent.
That would mean that the period of rising sea levels since 1990 -- which have been well-studied and tracked by satellites -- represents an even bigger departure from the past than once believed. (Both this...