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What is the cryosphere? Hint: It's vital to farming, fishing and skiing

  • Written by Mark Serreze, Research Professor of Geography and Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder
Rivers of melted ice on a Western Greenland ice sheet drain into the ocean beneath the ice.Photo via Caspar Haarløv/AP

More than 100 scientists from 30 countries will soon release a special report examining climate change impacts on the oceans and a less familiar but critically important part of the Earth: the cryosphere.

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