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The oceans absorb 90 percent of the heat trapped by emissions, which is causing the ice sheets and glaciers to melt and the sea levels to rise.
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
But as the planet warms, melting glaciers and ice sheets — such as the Greenland ice sheet — are adding more freshwater to the system, which is diluting its salinity and disrupting traditional patterns.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
While similar retreats have happened much further back in the past, the ice sheet recovered and regrew, Smith said.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
These ice shelves buttress the ice sheet and prevent glaciers from flowing more rapidly out to sea.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2024
And one possible answer is that many of them are underwater, swamped by sea levels that rose as the gargantuan ice sheets melted.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
In Greenland, chemical pollution and radioactive liquid are frozen in ice sheets, left over from a nuclear power plant on a US military research base where scientists studied the potential to install nuclear missiles.
—Anita Hofschneider, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2024
Of the 3% that is fresh, most is locked in ice sheets and glaciers, many of which are melting rapidly into the oceans thanks to climate change.
—Mark Gongloff, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
At the bottom of the world, the floating edges of one of the enormous ice sheets covering Antarctica are facing an invisible threat, one that could add to rising sea levels around the globe.
—Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
But as the planet warms, melting glaciers and ice sheets — such as the Greenland ice sheet — are adding more freshwater to the system, which is diluting its salinity and disrupting traditional patterns.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
While similar retreats have happened much further back in the past, the ice sheet recovered and regrew, Smith said.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
These ice shelves buttress the ice sheet and prevent glaciers from flowing more rapidly out to sea.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2024
And one possible answer is that many of them are underwater, swamped by sea levels that rose as the gargantuan ice sheets melted.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
In Greenland, chemical pollution and radioactive liquid are frozen in ice sheets, left over from a nuclear power plant on a US military research base where scientists studied the potential to install nuclear missiles.
—Anita Hofschneider, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2024
Of the 3% that is fresh, most is locked in ice sheets and glaciers, many of which are melting rapidly into the oceans thanks to climate change.
—Mark Gongloff, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
At the bottom of the world, the floating edges of one of the enormous ice sheets covering Antarctica are facing an invisible threat, one that could add to rising sea levels around the globe.
—Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1831, in the meaning defined above
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