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Water is rapidly replacing ice along the coastal plain of southeastern Alaska, where glaciers are thinning and retreating, with meltwater forming lakes off of their fronts, NASA says.—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 The dunes were once beach ridges from when Lake Michigan’s meltwater reached farther inland.—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 The tiny pores in the hydrogel can hold water as the material thaws so there is no meltwater.—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025 The Snowball was suddenly obliterated by unimaginably high heat and CO2, and the global ice sheets flooded the oceans with steaming meltwater.—Peter Brannen
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