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Thu 09 Sep 2009Glaciers melting faster than expected
THE EDGES of the world's two greatest stores of land ice are melting away and it seems there is very little we can do about it.
Glaciers at the coastal margins of Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice much faster than scientists realised, dumping cubic kilometres of water each year into the world's oceans.
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