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how melting ice sheets and pumped groundwater can lower local sea levels – and boost them elsewhere

  • Written by Rebecca McGirr, Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University
how melting ice sheets and pumped groundwater can lower local sea levels – and boost them elsewhereBernhard Staehli/Shutterstock

Imagine you’re standing near the edge of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, gazing out over the ocean, when the ice near you starts to melt very rapidly. A surge of meltwater flows into the ocean. Surprisingly, you watch the sea level fall – not rise.

But why? When we think of sea level rise, we picture oceans...

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