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The science on how much of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will melt varies.—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026 The IceCube Neutrino Observatory on the South Pole sits even deeper — between 4,750 and 8,040 feet (1,450 and 2,450 meters) deep in the ice sheet.—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 13 May 2026 Greenland's glaciers are dumping more ice into the sea, and the ice sheet as a whole has lost mass.—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 8 May 2026 Thoreau correctly interpreted that his New England landscape had been shaped by a colossal ice sheet that had flowed southward from Canada.—Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for ice sheet