Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, mostly because of ocean water expanding as it warms, or thermal expansion ...

Global sea levels rose 0.23 inches in 2024, satellite records show, compared to the predicted 0.17 inches expected for the year.

Earth’s oceans rose faster than expected last year as the world experienced its hottest year on record, NASA says.

the observed rise in sea levels has been mainly caused by the first factor and less by the second, according to Nasa. “But in 2024, those contributions flipped, with two-thirds of sea-level rise ...

and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

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“The rise we saw in 2024 was higher than we expected,” said Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the NASA release. “Every year is a little bit differ ...

In recent years, the observed rise in sea levels has been mainly caused by the first factor and less by the second, according to NASA. "But in 2024, those contributions flipped, with two-thirds of sea ...

Climate change was a major driver to an unexpected level of sea level rise in 2024, according to a new NASA analysis. Global sea levels rose 0.23 inches in 2024, satellite records show ...