Ice Sheet Melting Reaches Alarming Rates, Driving Sea Levels Higher.
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The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new study. The combined melt soared to 410 billion tons a year from 2017 to 2020, more than two-thirds of it from Greenland. Since 1992, Earth has lost 8.3 trillion tons of ice from the two ice sheets, contributing to more than one-quarter of sea level rise.
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