Accelerating pace of ice sheet melt a significant contributor to sea level rise

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Washington DC (UPI) Apr 20, 2021

The ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an accelerating pace causing signifcant sea level rise, according to a three-decade-long study published Thursday. Scientists tracking ice losses from Greenland and the Antarctic over a 29-year period using 50 satellites - 27 for Greenland and 23 for Antarctica - found that the polar caps lost 7,563 billion tons of ice between

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