Glaciers are retreating, sea level is rising, and “We ain’t seen nothing yet”

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Peer-reviewed research out Wednesday shows that parts of a huge ice sheet covering Eurasia retreated up to 2,000 feet per day at the end of the last ice age—by far the fastest rate measured to date. The new finding, published in the journal Nature, upends “what scientists previously thought were the upper speed limits for ice sheet retreat,” The Washington […]

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