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

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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A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First.
Lauren Sommer covers climate change for NPR's Climate Desk.
Rebecca Hersher is a reporter on NPR's Climate Desk.
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