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Climate change causing faster ice melt, on both poles
Scientists find bigger than expected polar ice melt
Feb 25, 2009
GENEVA (AFP) — Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising sea levels and fuelling climate change, a major scientific survey showed Wednesday.
The International Polar Year (IPY) survey found that warming in the Antarctic is “much more widespread than was thought,” while Arctic sea ice is diminishing and the melting of Greenland’s ice cover is accelerating.
Rising sea levels and changes in ocean temperatures triggered by the melting ice also heralded shifts in weather patterns worldwide and potentially more coastal storm surges, scientists said.
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