SHANGHAI: China’s sea levels reached their highest on record last year, swelled by rising water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps, the government said in a report.
Coastal sea levels were 84mm higher in 2021 than the average over the period from 1993 to 2011, the National Marine Environmental Monitoring Centre said in an annual bulletin.
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