Science Bulletins: Melting Ice, Rising Seas

The rising temperatures of global climate change are melting the world’s ice. Most notable are the shrinking ice sheets of Greenland and west Antarctica, which have shown dramatic loss in recent years. Travel to the glaciers of Greenland and to fossilized coral reefs of the Florida Keys, where earth scientists are studying geologic records of past warming to predict future ice loss and associated sea level rise.

Watch this Science Bulletins video and then share with us your story. (See the full-resolution video at www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins.) Do you live in a coastal area or on an island that would be threatened by rising sea levels? How should we anticipate the impact that melting ice and rising seas will have on these heavily populated areas of the world?

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