rising waters

There has been a deluge of papers on the shrinking continental ice caps in the last couple of months, warning of the imminent more literal deluge which will threaten major coastal cities and indeed countries within decades.

I've tried to compile all these rather scary developments from both polar regions and even the high mountain glaciers in my latest feature which is out now in today's issue of Current Biology:

Shrinking ice caps, rising oceans

Current Biology Volume 29, issue 5, pages R137-R140, March 4, 2019

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Studies of the Antarctic ice sheet increasingly detect the accelerating disappearance of ice. (Photo: Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps.)