Sentences with phrase «western ice sheet collapse»

NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot said western ice sheet collapse is «unstoppable» and could dramatically raise sea levels.

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Those changes may include the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, the collapse of ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica, dieback of the Amazon rainforest and changes in the jet stream and the pattern of El Niño and La Niña weather cycles.

The prime contenders are the melting of the West Antarctic ice - sheet, the melting of the Greenland ice - sheet (whose collapse some scientists believe will now be hard to prevent), and the thawing of peat bogs in western

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