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Antarctica melting faster than ever before posing significant threat to coastal cities, according to major study [1]

Ice melting in Antarctica is causing sea levels to rise at a massive rate and the frozen continent has lost about 3 trillion tonnes of ice in the last 25 years.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2018
Independent (United Kingdom) [2]
Tags:
Climate Change [3], Antarctica [4], Glacial Melt [5], Global Warming [6], Sea Level Rise [7], Floods [8], Scientists [9], NASA [10]
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
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