Eli5: How does glaciers melting cause the oceans to rise?

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If global warming causes glaciers to melt, how does that increase the water level if there is still the same amount of water, but in different forms (liquid and solid)?
Like if you have a glass of water with ice cubes in it filled to the brim, and the ice melts, the glass doesn’t overflow…

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Glaciers are ice on land, ice melts and the water goes into the oceans. The Greenland ice sheet is losing about 250,000,000,000 metric tons of ice per year.

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