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Screenshot from"Climate Change Effects on Glaciers and Ice Sheets" with an Arctic glacier.

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Climate Change Effects on Glaciers and Ice Sheets

March 2018

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Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.

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Climate Change

July 2012

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On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late 1970s.

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Sea Level Rise

April 2016

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The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and more than a mile thick.

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Up Close and Personal With the Fastest Glacier in the World

April 2015

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