However, in some places, like Oslo, Norway, the land is rising faster due to glacial isostatic adjustment Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app ...

The same story is happening everywhere that was covered in ice: the lithosphere buckled under the massive weight of ice sheets, and has been slowly recovering in the millennia since they were exposed.

But isostatic rebound creates a moment of exactly that: the more landlocked glaciers melt, the lower the local sea levels drop. Here’s how.

Isostatic pressing has been used for decades in fusion bonding and joining materials. Recently, it has been a tool for eliminating voids and anomalies in 3D-printed parts.

If you're reading this in Scandinavia or in the Hudson Bay area of Canada, you're going up in the world. And if you're anywhere in the northern US, you're going down – quite literally. The Earth ...