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Why melting ice sheets and glaciers are affecting people thousands of miles away

Oliver James Montgomery ​​​​​​​View Date:2025-04-10 04:22:29

The world's massive ice sheets and glaciers are melting as climate change raises temperatures. Scientists warn that disappearing ice is having surprising and far-reaching effects.

Take a quiz online to see if you can guess those distant impacts. Or check out the other stories in the NPR Climate Desk series Beyond the Poles: The far-reaching dangers of melting ice.

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