When we talk about rising sea levels, we usually think of melting glaciers.

But there’s another, quieter crisis unfolding underground.

Over the past two decades, NASA satellites have tracked massive groundwater depletion- a shift now contributing more to sea-level rise than melting ice sheets.

In this episode of the Boring Climate Podcast, Dr Hrishikesh Chandanpurkar, Earth System Scientist at Arizona State University, joins us to explain how human overuse of groundwater is dehydrating the planet and altering its hydrological balance.

He unpacks how terrestrial water storage, the invisible layer beneath our feet, connects our taps to the oceans, reminding us that what we draw from the ground eventually finds its way to the sea.