‘Water mining’ is now a prime culprit for raising sea levels

Telegraph: Nowhere in the Maldives juts more than 10 feet above the Indian Ocean, making it extremely worried about sea level rise. Its president, Mohamed Nasheed, illustrated the point by holding a cabinet meeting under water in the run-up to last year's Copenhagen summit. But a new study shows that global warming is not the only cause of swelling seas. Much comes from "water mining" -- the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth, mainly to irrigate crops. This inevitably ......

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