Anticipating a New Coastline

Sea levels are slowly rising as global warming frees up fresh water locked in polar ice. The melting of ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica could raise sea levels by about 39 feet, a process that could take hundreds or thousands of years.

Anticipating a New Coastline

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