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Research reveals new insights into how fast-moving glaciers might affect sea level rise

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Sea levels are rising as a result of climate change due to ocean expansion and ice melting on land. Sea level rise in the near future will be influenced by a number of factors, some of which include how frequently glaciers calve. These happen when big chunks of ice break off from tidewater glaciers, or glaciers that finish in the ocean, and fall into coastal fjords as icebergs.