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Changes in global sea level (background map) and local sea level (dots) between 1993 and 2021. Global sea level has risen almost everywhere (blue colors). Locally, some coastal areas have seen sea level fall (brown) because the ground there rose faster than global sea level. Most of these areas were buried beneath massive ice sheets during the last ice age, and they are still rebounding from that compression, a process that takes thousands of years. NOAA Climate.gov map, based on data from the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center.