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Why melting ice sheets and glaciers are affecting people thousands of miles away
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Date:2025-04-15 06:32:28
The world's massive ice sheets and glaciers are melting as climate change raises temperatures. Scientists warn that disappearing ice is having surprising and far-reaching effects.
Take a quiz online to see if you can guess those distant impacts. Or check out the other stories in the NPR Climate Desk series Beyond the Poles: The far-reaching dangers of melting ice.
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