Global sea levels have risen 8cm since 1992, Nasa research shows

Scientists say warming waters and melting ice were to blame for levels rising faster than 50 years ago and 'it's very likely to get worse'

Sea levels worldwide have risen an average of nearly eight centimetres (three inches) since 1992 because of warming waters and melting ice, a panel of Nasa scientists said on Wednesday.

In 2013 a United Nations panel predicted sea levels would rise from between 0.3 and 0.9 metres by the end of the century. The new research shows that sea level rise would probably be at the high end of that, said a University of Colorado geophysicist, Steve Nerem.