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The World's Ice Is Melting Fast -- and Raising Sea Levels

"Ice is melting everywhere -- and at an accelerating rate. Rising global temperatures are lengthening melting seasons, thawing frozen ground, and thinning ice caps and glaciers that in some cases have existed for millennia. These changes are raising sea level faster than earlier projected by scientists, and threatening both human and wildlife populations." - excerpt from the article at http://www.enn.com/aff.html?id=437

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