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The world's melting ice has surprising impacts. Can you guess them?

NPR | By Rebecca Hersher,
Ryan Kellman, Lauren Sommer, Alyson Hurt, Connie Hanzhang Jin, Daniel Wood, Jacob Fenton
Published April 19, 2023 at 5:01 AM EDT
The planet's massive ice sheets are melting as temperatures rise. Scientists are finding that melt is having surprising and far-reaching effects.
Ryan Kellman
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Melting glaciers and ice sheets are far from where most people live. But the impacts of disappearing ice stretch across the planet. See if you can guess how.

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Rebecca Hersher
Rebecca Hersher (she/her) is a reporter on NPR's Climate Desk, where she reports on climate science, weather disasters, infrastructure and how humans are adapting to a hotter world.
Ryan Kellman
Ryan Kellman is a producer and visual reporter for NPR's science desk. Kellman joined the desk in 2014. In his first months on the job, he worked on NPR's Peabody Award-winning coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. He has won several other notable awards for his work: He is a Fulbright Grant recipient, he has received a John Collier Award in Documentary Photography, and he has several first place wins in the WHNPA's Eyes of History Awards. He holds a master's degree from Ohio University's School of Visual Communication and a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Lauren Sommer
Lauren Sommer covers climate change for NPR's Science Desk, from the scientists on the front lines of documenting the warming climate to the way those changes are reshaping communities and ecosystems around the world.
Alyson Hurt
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Connie Hanzhang Jin
Daniel Wood
Daniel Wood is a visual journalist at NPR, where he brings data and analyses into complex topics by paired reporting with custom charts, maps and explainers. He focuses on data-rich topics like COVID-19 outcomes, climate change and politics. His interest in tracking a small outbreak of a novel coronavirus in January 2020 helped position NPR to be among the leading news organizations to provide daily updates on the growth and impact of COVID-19 around the country and globe.
Jacob Fenton