70% of the world’s fresh water is ice and snow. It’s all kept nice and frozen in the Arctic sea, Antarctica, and Greenland.
However, ice sheets are losing mass, glaciers are shrinking, sea ice cover is reducing in the Arctic, and snow cover is decreasing in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is happening is that ice is melting due to rising temperatures on Earth, an effect of global warming. This causes sea level rise. You can find out more here.
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