i.e. from mountain glaciers, small ice caps and the big ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica. Melting sea ice hardly affects global sea level, since it already floats on the sea displacing water ...

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But as ice shelves melt, it can mean that the ice behind speeds up, releasing more into the oceans. The study's findings suggest that future sea-level rise may be greater than previously assumed.