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Glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula, Palmer Islands area. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Earth Day: New study shows how fast Antarctic glaciers are melting

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Glaciers that stand on flat areas melt at a higher rate than those on mountains, there is a fear that the Thwaites Glacier will soon reach a flat area and then its melting will accelerate
The average global warming map of 2013 – 2017, compared to the average temperature in the period from 1951 to 1980. Source: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.

2017 was among the three hottest years since measurements began

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Alaska. heats up fast. Photo: Steve Halama.

where is the ice Alaska is warming up

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sprouts Photo: USFWS.

Trump against the Nevatans

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The lands in the arctic circle have been frozen for thousands and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of years. Photo: NASA.

When the ground disappears under your feet

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Photo: Dion Tavenier.

Traffic congestion in the North Pole

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Globally, January 2017 was 0.88 degrees Celsius warmer than the 20th century average. This is the third warmest January since measurements began in 1880. Chart: NOAA.

Despite the cold nights, the world is still warming

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Arctic ice sheets. Photo: NASA

Freeze the North Pole

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The crack in the ice shelf Larsen C. Photo: NASA.

Careful, the ice is broken

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The new Polar Bear menu

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The minimum ice cover as recorded on September 12, 2013. In the green line - the average of the minimum summer ice cover over 30 years. Photo: Imaging Studio at NASA's Goddard Center/Cindy Starr

The ice melts and therefore the Earth returns less radiation to space, and the result: increased warming

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On the right - Antarctica as it actually looks - covered in ice. On the left - a map drawn by the British Antarctic Survey with the help of NASA data of the route of the terrain under the ice. Photo: British Antarctic Survey

What does Antarctica look like under the eternal ice sheet?

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A NOAA expedition examines the melting of the ice in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2005. Photo: NOAA

The Arctic Ocean will be free of summer ice during the first half of the 21st century

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Screenshot from a video by Katie Walter Anthony of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks of methane from thawed permafrost catching fire

Is global warming faster than expected? / John Kerry

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Sea level changes in the past and possibly in the future. Map prepared by Emanuel Soding, Christian Albrecht University, using NOAA data

Why is the sea level rising faster than expected?

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Currents in the oceans

currents in the ocean

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Greenland's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate

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The opening of the Northeast Passage is strong evidence of global warming

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"For more than a decade now, the rate of ice melting in the North Pole in the summer has exceeded the rate of accumulation in the winter," says Prof. Haim Kotiel, a climate expert from the University of Haifa

The ice sheets in the Swiss Alps are disappearing

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Greenland's sea ice has reached an 800-year low

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A company related to the energy sector funded a scandalous study contradicting global warming

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