Climate Central: A new analysis released Thursday in the journal Science implies that the seas could rise dramatically higher over the next few centuries than scientists previously thought -- somewhere between 18-to-29 feet above current levels, rather than the 13-to-20 feet they were talking about just a few years ago. The increase in sea level would largely come from the partial melting of giant ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica, which have remained largely intact since the end of the last ice age, nearly...
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