A more troubling picture of sea level rise is coming into view

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By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360Apr 18, 2026, 9:00 am369 ptsTop
Sea levels are much higher than we thought. Real-world oceans are making a mockery of flood-risk forecasts based on crude global modeling. And to make matters worse, coastal lands almost everywhere are subsiding faster than anyone realized — often many times faster than the seas are rising. These findings…

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