Sea levels surged in 2024, rising faster than expected due to warming oceans. Unlike previous years, where melting ice dominated, thermal expansion drove most of the increase. NASA's satellite records show sea levels climbing steadily since 1993,

NASA data shows global sea levels are rising faster than expected. Most of the rise in 2024 came from ocean warming, not melting ice.

Global sea levels rose 0.23 inches (0.59 centimeters) in 2024, surpassing the expected 0.17 inches, according to NASA. A NASA-led analysis published Thursday found that thermal expansion, the process of ocean water expanding as it warms, played a big role in the “unexpected” rise.

Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35 percent higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday.

Climate change was a major driver to an unexpected level of sea level rise in 2024, according to a new NASA analysis. Global sea levels rose 0.23 inches in 2024, satellite records show, compared to the predicted 0.

Sea levels have risen more than anticipated in 2024, the hottest year on record, according to NASA. The increase is attributed to unusually high ocean temperatures and the melting of glaciers. This rise is a consequence of climate change driven by human activity,

Global sea levels rose more than expected in 2024, Earth's hottest year on record, according to an analysis released Thursday by the US space agency NASA.

Global sea levels rose by an unexpected amount in 2024, which was officially recorded as the hottest year on Earth since temperature monitoring began. According to a NASA analysis, the rise was primarily driven by unusual ocean warming and glacial meltwater,