World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 14:00 in Earth & Climate

While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study.

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