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As the planet heats up, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting, and this water from the polar regions is flowing into the world's oceans and especially into the equatorial region.
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Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
As a result, warming oceans are making sea levels rise, bleaching coral reefs, melting glaciers and ice sheets and stressing fish and other marine life.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
Canisteo, on the other hand, is a special coastal feature: an ice rise, where ice is stuck to the bedrock and builds up over millennia, quietly recording changes as the ice sheet flows around it.
—Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 18 Apr. 2024
Soja’s team found that between 0.3 and 1 millisecond per century was added between 1900 and 2000; since the millennium, the rate of change has accelerated to 1.3 milliseconds per century as ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have shrunk faster.
—Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
As a result, warming oceans are making sea levels rise, bleaching coral reefs, melting glaciers and ice sheets and stressing fish and other marine life.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
Canisteo, on the other hand, is a special coastal feature: an ice rise, where ice is stuck to the bedrock and builds up over millennia, quietly recording changes as the ice sheet flows around it.
—Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 18 Apr. 2024
Soja’s team found that between 0.3 and 1 millisecond per century was added between 1900 and 2000; since the millennium, the rate of change has accelerated to 1.3 milliseconds per century as ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have shrunk faster.
—Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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“Ice sheet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20sheet. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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