AP
In this July 19, 2011, file photo, pools of melted ice form atop Jakobshavn Glacier near the edge of the vast Greenland ice sheet. Since 1997, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have lost 5.5 trillion metric tons of ice, according to Andrew Shepherd at the University of Leeds, who used NASA and European satellite data.
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