ByDani Leviss-Live Science Contributor10 hours ago

In some places, sea levels are actually falling.

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Rescue workers transport people in a rubber boat in Oyama in Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2015, just after torrential rains flooded rivers and triggered landslides.(Image: © YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP via Getty Images)

Sea level rise is not a new phenomenon. For much of the 20th century, the global mean sea level has been inching upward — about 0.05 inches (1.4 millimeters) per year, according to the United Nations’Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Global mean sea level is an average of all the seas covering theEarth. But during the last two decades, the rate has more than doubled. From 2005 to 2015, sea levels rose by 0.1 inches (3.6 mm) per year.

But is this rise consistent worldwide?

Nope, not at all. “Sea level rise is not…