Global sea levels rising faster than previously thought

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ByMichael CaseyCBS NewsMay 11, 2015

The world's seas are rising faster than previously thought, offering stark evidence that global warming is posing dire challenges to coastal communities around the world.

In an analysis published in Nature Climate Change on Monday, researchers used satellite data combined with tidal gauge information and GPS measurements to overturn previous suggestions that rates had slowed in the past decade.

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The research is the latest to find sea level rates are rising, partly due to melting ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica and shrinking glaciers, triggered by the rise in heat-trapping, greenhouse gas emissions.

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