ice sheet
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Both ice sheets have shown increasing rates of ice loss over the past decade. — Brandon Miller, CNN, "The science behind the climate crisis," 4 Sep. 2019 It had been buried in Greenland’s ice sheet since September 2017, when one of four engines on Air France Flight 66 abruptly disintegrated en route from Paris to Los Angeles. — Washington Post, "IMF cautions against weakening currencies," 22 Aug. 2019 The shrinking ice sheets surrounding Greenland have caught the attention of other Trump administration officials who see potential. — Katie Rogers, New York Times, "Eyeing Greenland, Trump Again Mixes Real Estate With Diplomacy," 16 Aug. 2019 The Antarctic ice sheet sat more or less stable in shape and size for many thousands of years. — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, "West Antarctica is melting—and it’s our fault," 12 Aug. 2019 The country’s ice sheets are melting at a rate projected by pessimistic climate models to happen in 2070. — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, "What it was like living through the hottest month in Earth’s recorded history," 3 Aug. 2019 Greenland’s ice sheet usually melts during the summer. — Fox News, "Photos from Greenland reveal worrying cost of European heat wave," 1 Aug. 2019 Around 45% of sea level rise has occurred because the ice sheets and mountain glaciers are melting, Hall said. — Diya Chacko, latimes.com, "California’s coast is disappearing, and the debate over what to do about it is in full swing," 11 July 2019 The vast island of Greenland sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, has a population of 56,000 and has 80% of its land mass covered by a 1.7 million-square-kilometer (660,000 square-mile) ice sheet. — Laurie Kellman, BostonGlobe.com, "Trump calls comments by Denmark’s prime minister ‘nasty’," 21 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ice sheet.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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