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                                                                    Almost 70 percent

                                                        of Earth’s fresh water is frozen


                                                    into solid ice. Most of it forms ice

                                                      sheets and glaciers in the Arctic,


                                                       Antarctic, and high mountains.


                                                    But just a few thousand years ago,

                                                       these ice sheets were far larger.


                                                          The land they once covered


                                                                 still bears the scars of

                                                                        these ice ages.

















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