Editor's pick - are sea levels rising or falling?

Mark Miodownik (The Guardian) writes about how the melting of large ice caps will undoubtedly increase the volume of our oceans, but that the nature and behaviour of the earth's crust might just save us from the catastrophic flooding that some predict will happen; is he right, and is glacial rebound really going to save us??

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