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Agence France-Presse: The pace at which the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting is "accelerating rapidly" and raising the global sea level, according to findings of a study financed by NASA.
The findings suggest that the ice sheets - more so than ice loss from earth's mountain glaciers and ice caps - have become "the dominant contributor to global sea level rise, much sooner than model forecasts have predicted".
This study, published on Tuesday, the longest to date examining changes to polar ice sheet......
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Polar ice melt raising sea levels rapidly: study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2011
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