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Land Rising
Parts of Sweden and Finland are bucking the trend of global sea-level rise. Since the ice that covered them during the last Ice Age melted, their land is bouncing back up and growing larger.
Sea levels are rising around the world, swamping coastal areas as the climate changes and ice cover shrinks. Yet in some parts of Scandinavia the land is rising even faster than the sea, at least for now. From Finland, Rae Ellen Bichell reports.