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Alternate Text: Map of southern Alaska showing local sea level changes
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Map of southern Alaska showing local sea level changes

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Local sea level around the Gulf of Alaska is falling, mostly because loss of glaciers is allowing the land to rise faster than global sea level is rising. Screenshot from Climate.gov/NOAA CO-COPS interactive map of local sea level trends.