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The rate of sea-level rise is far worse previously thought, study says
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Researchers have come up with a new and improved way of measuring the rise in the sea level, and the news is not good: The seas have risen dramatically faster over the last two decades than anyone had known. For hundreds of years, the seas were measured by more or less the equivalent of plopping a yard stick into the ocean and seeing if the ocean went up or down. But now, that method looks to be outdated. According to a new study published on Wednesday in Nature, the new method involves an...
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