Antarctica’s ice walls are no match for The Wall in ‘Game of Thrones’

Until a fire-spewing dragon breached The Wall in Game of Thrones, the 700-foot tall ice fortification kept murderous armies of resurrected dead from entering the Seven Kingdoms. 
Unfortunately, ice walls on Earth aren’t this robust.
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Seas may rise by 8 feet this century inundating land that’s home to 153 million people

The amount of sea level rise that most of us will experience in our lifetimes may be more than double what was previously anticipated, unless we sharply curtail greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study that factors in emerging, unsettling r…

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NASA took the 1st, astonishing aerial photos of the giant new Antarctic iceberg

Each Antarctic spring and summer, NASA flies special aircraft over the continent to keep tabs on how global warming is altering the landscape. The agency does the same in the Arctic each summer, for a project known as Operation IceBridge. 
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