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Study: Rising Seas Slowed by Increasing Water on Land

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Earth's land masses have stored increasing amounts of water in the last decade, slowing the pace of sea level rise.

New NASA satellite data have allowed researchers to identify and quantify, for the first time, how climate-driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected sea level rise.