A recent report brings more bad news for the future of the human race on Earth, as the world’s two largest ice sheets are melting faster than ever before. On Wednesday the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany released a new report that shows the ice sheets in western Antarctica and Greenland are melting at their fastest rate since observations began – and contributing to sea level rise twice as fast as they were five years ago. Read the rest of The World’s Largest Ice Sheets are Melting at an Unprecedented Rate Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: alfred wegener , antarctica , change , climate , glacial , glacier , global , greenland , ice , institute , melt , report , sheet , warming
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The World’s Largest Ice Sheets are Melting at an Unprecedented Rate