The team concluded that groundwater has contributed 25 percent of the sea level rise observed since 2000.

该小组的结论是：2000年以来所观测到的海平面上升中有25%是由流入的地下水造成的。

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With the sea level rise associated with climate change, they could well not be here in a couple of generation’s time.

随着气候变化、海平面上升，几个世纪后将不复存在。

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However, the instability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet will increase with the climatic worming and thus will become the most important in the factors causing the sea level rise.

但是西南极冰盖的不稳定性可能随气候持续变暖而增强，成为引起海平面上升的最重要潜在因素。

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The nesting grounds for pelicans, gulls and other water foul, they rise less than 30 centimeters above sea level.

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"The key finding of this meeting is that we have up to one-meter sea-level rise by 2100, based on our new insight of glaciers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Many of the islands that make up the Maldives rise little more than one meter above sea level, and could disappear under the sea if global temperatures continue to rise.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

On March 2, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in our favor -- a Pyrrhic victory considering all of the money and resources wasted that could have been invested, for example, in measures to protect Virginia's coastline from the damaging effects of the sea level rise it is already seeing.

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The contribution from Alaska's glaciers to the worldwide sea level rise "is even more that what we had expected, " he added.

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If global temperature rises by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the next century, scientists estimate the sea level will rise seven to 15 inches.

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