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Polar Ice Sheets Losing Mass Rapidly

"The pace at which the polar ice sheets are losing mass was found to be accelerating rapidly. Each year over the course of the study, the two ice sheets lost a combined average of 36.3 gigatonnes more than they did the year before." - excerpt from this JPL news release.

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