Miami (AFP) - As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing
some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday.
Satellite measurements over the past decade show for the first time that the Earth's continents have soaked up and stored an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, the experts said in a study in the journal Science.
This has
temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent, it said.