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Antarctica is rising because of a
phenomenon called post-glacial
. A huge volume of ice has melted from the continent's
. This has made it lighter. This
means it is slowly rising. The melting glaciers are causing sea levels around the
to rise. Geologist Terry Wilson wrote: "Our
show that the solid earth that forms the
of the Antarctic ice sheet is changing
surprisingly quickly. The land uplift from
ice on the surface is happening in
, rather than over thousands of years."
