Antarctica, Greenland ice definitely melting into sea, and speeding up, experts warn

NBC: What had been a blurry picture about polar ice -- especially how it impacts sea levels -- just got a whole lot clearer as experts on Thursday published a peer-reviewed study they say puts to rest the debate over whether the poles added to, or subtracted from, sea level rise over the last two decades. "This improved certainty allows us to say definitively that both Antarctica and Greenland have been losing ice," lead author Andrew Shepherd of the University of Leeds in Britain, told reporters.......

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