Saturday, June 14, 2025

Weirdly, Climate Change Is Causing South Africa’s Ground To Rise, Not Sink

[Image: Flickr] South Africa is literally on the rise. Slowly and almost sneakily, the land in some places is creeping upward by about two millimetres a year. For ages, scientists figured this was all thanks to deep, fiery drama underground – molten rock plumes pushing their way up from the mantle over thousands of kilometres. […]