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- Ice helps to balance world's climate
- Meltwater provides water for people and crops
- Ice and glaciers provide areas for tourism which generates jobs
- Ice caps, sheets and glaciers store large amounts of fresh water, preventing sea levels rising and flooding coastal areas

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- Increasing earth temperatures are melting ice masses.
- Current CO2 levels are the highest in 15 million years.
- This contributes to temperature increase (sun rays are unable to escape earth)
- Thus glaciers melt

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POSITIVE:
- Easier to access resources under the seabed, such as oil and gas
- Distances may be reduced as navigation routes may improve.
NEGATIVE:
- Threatens wildlife
- Less ice --> decreases albedo --> increase in temp --> increase in GW
- Floodings as sea levels increase

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- Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost an increasing amount of ice

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- Sea levels rise
- Warmer temperatures cause oceans to expand