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06/14/18

Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Much Faster Than Expected

The planet's largest ice sheet is now losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year - a threefold increase from less than a decade ago. The melting is happening so fast that it could cause sea levels to rise 6 inches by the end of the century, the study project

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/antarctica-ice-sheet-melting-study-sea-level-rise_us_5b2228ede4b0adfb82711586

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