Melting Glaciers Endanger Millions

9 June 2002 - 6:00am

Rapidly melting glaciers pose a serious threat

"It is not only the mountain glaciers that are melting. American Nasa scientists say the rate at which the huge Greenland ice sheet is melting has increased by a fifth in the last two decades...Nasa believes global warming could be to blame - and it is the first time the scientists have suggested such a link.This pattern is repeated in all the world's coldest places."

Source: The Guardian Unlimited, June 9, 2002
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