Iceland is rising faster than previous estimates, probably because of its disappearing glaciers.

When the ice caps melted at the end of the last ice age, the ground lifted up as the overlying weight of ice decreased. However, it has been difficult to tease out this signal from the effects of modern climate change. A team led by Kathleen Compton of the University of Arizona in Tucson studied more than five years of data from more than 60 Global Positioning System stations across Iceland.

Parts of central Iceland have been rising by more than 30 millimetres per year and that rate has been increasing, probably due to faster ice melt since 1980.

Geophys. Res. Lett. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062446 (2015)