Land, not ice, is now driving rising sea levels

The world's driest regions are merging - and the consequences are global

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Earth’s land is drying out so rapidly that it’s now contributing more to rising sea levels than melting glaciers. The new study, published in Science Advances, shows that water lost from soil, lakes and underground aquifers is accelerating sea level rise - and this drying trend is expanding at an alarming rate.

In fact, these regions are drying so quickly they're beginning to merge into vast, connected ‘mega-dry’ zones. One such area now stretches from the southwest coast of the US down into Mexico.