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World’s landlocked basins drying

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Most of the net water transferred over the past 15 years from non-glaciated land to the oceans has originated from landlocked basins, according to satellite data. This source of sea-level rise is often overlooked.

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Fig. 1: Extent of the Aral Sea in 2000 and 2018.

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  • 12 December 2018

    In the version of this News & Views originally published, the lead author of ref. 3 was incorrectly referred to as ‘Yang’ in the main text; the correct surname is ‘Wang’. This has now been corrected in the online versions.

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