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Climate Central: As the planet warms under the influence of rising greenhouse gases, and melting ice drives sea level higher, scientists have focused mostly on changes in the vast ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica. If either one melts substantially or slides into the ocean, the results would be catastrophic.
But there's another ice reserve to worry about: the many thousands of smaller glaciers unconnected to continental-scale ice sheets. They're melting, too, and a new report in Science shows that......
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Smaller Glaciers Boost Sea Level as Much as the Giants
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation