What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted
If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like.
This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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