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The huge ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are
especially likely to make sea levels rise. Despite its name,
Greenland is mostly covered in ice. Its ice sheet covers an
area three times the size of Texas. The sea level would
rise 20 feet (6 m) if all its ice melted. The ice sheet on
Antarctica is even
bigger. It could
cover the entire
United States. If
it melted, the sea
level would rise by
200 feet (61 m)!
In 2010, a piece of
Greenland’s ice sheet broke
off that was roughly four
times the size of Manhattan!
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