A research has disclosed that floating ice equal to the size of 1.5 million icebergs are melting away yearly. The melting ice is increasing the sea levels yearly by the hair's breadth of a human.

The finding has contradicted the fact proposed by the Archimedes's principal, which states that floating ice replaces it own volume, if fluid melts and should not add more water .

It has been reported that the melting icebergs have the potential to increase the sea levels across the globe to rise by 49 micrometers, annually. If the melting rate continues, it will take approximately 200 years for the water level in oceans to rise by a centimeter. The researcher reports that if all the floating ice melts away, the sea level will increase by 4cm only.

The sea level of the oceans will rise by 230ft, if all the ice on the land melted.

Lead researcher Professor Andrew Shepherd, from the University of Leeds said, 'Over recent decades there have been dramatic reductions in the quantity of Earth's floating ice, including collapses of Antarctic ice shelves and the retreat of Arctic sea ice".