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Melting Land Ice and Sea Level Rise
February 8, 2012 | NASA

“In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth’s melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


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