A new report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change details the changes humans have caused in Earth's oceans and frozen regions. It warns that without rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the impacts will grow more severe.
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Cities from New York to Shanghai could see regular flooding, as sea levels rise faster than previously thought. Glaciers and ice sheets from the Himalayas to Antarctica are rapidly melting.And the fisheries that feed millions of people are shrinking.These are just some of the impacts that emissions of greenhouse gases have already triggered across the planet's oceans and frozen regions, according to a new landmark report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .
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