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Ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland increased sixfold in the last 30 years
By Brandon Specktor - Senior Writer March 13, 2020
The rapid ice loss puts the world right on track for the 'worst case' climate scenario.
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A massive iceberg floating on its side in Greenland
A massive iceberg floats on its side in Greenland.
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Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s, a pair of studies in the journal Nature show.
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According to the international team of climatologists behind the research, the unprecedented rate of melt has already contributed 0.7 inches (1.78 centimeters) to global sea level rise in the last three decades, putting the planet on track for the worst-case climate warming scenario laid out in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report. The dreaded scenario, which predicts a total sea level rise of 23.6 inches (60 cm) by the year 2100, would put hundreds of millions of people living in coastal communities at risk of losing their homes — or their lives — to flooding.