China's sea levels touched new high in 2021, govt study shows

China's sea levels reached their highest on record last year, swelled by rising water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, the government said in a report.

Coastal sea levels were 84mm (3.3 inches) higher in 2021 than the average over the period from 1993 to 2011, the National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center said in an annual bulletin...