At stake are not just fish, hydrocarbons and minerals: melting ice means that the Arctic, once largely a dead end, may become a strategic route to East Asia.

现在处于争论关头的不仅仅是渔业，碳氢和矿物资源，一旦北极的冰川融化，曾经一片沉寂的北极地区可能成为通往东亚的战略要道。

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A new study shows sea levels will rise higher than previously believed by the end of this century, due to rapidly melting ice from Antarctica.

一项新研究显示，由于南极冰川迅速融化，海平面到本世纪末的上升幅度将超过以往的预测。

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Experts say that the melting could pose a huge threat to the fresh water reserves at the southern end of south America.

专家称冰川融化为南美洲南部的淡水资源储备带来了极大威胁。

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Small problem, since about 99% of the melting near the end of the century will come from those two sources.

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The melting of the Antarctic and Greenland icecaps and the flooding of Bangladesh could not happen until the end of the next century, if at all.

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