Over 12 trillion tons of Earth’s polar ice has melted, as scientists warn about sea-level rise

About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice 5 feet (1.5 meters) deep across the continental United States, according to a major scientific report.A warming Earth is acceleratin