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Why we should worry about Greenland’s melting ice sheets

A new study looks into the past to help see into the future of sea level rise.

By Jonathan Bamber, The Conversation November 17, 2020
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Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise by more than 7 meters.

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