Study: Glaciers And Ice Caps To Dominate Sea-Level Rise Through 21st Century

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The Columbia Glacier in Alaska one of the many tidewater glaciers contributing substantially to global sea-rise levels in the 21st century. (Photo courtesy Robert S. Anderson CU-Boulder)
The Columbia Glacier in Alaska, one of the many tidewater glaciers contributing substantially to global sea-rise levels in the 21st century. (Photo courtesy Robert S. Anderson, CU-Boulder)

Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.


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