Mountain glaciers in the Andes are melting the fastest in 350 years

Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 08:59 UTC

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Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, according to new research. Universities at Aberystwyth, Exeter and Stockholm looked at longer timescales than usual for their study. Read full article

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Please forgive if im wrong, but is not about 90% of the worlds fresh clean water frozen up in these places, thus despite even more flooding around the world in the future, would this in turn make fresh water even more scarcer than it is now, just a thought
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