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Man hiking in Spitsbergen Mountain scene of the Spitsbergen Mountains in Isfjord

Snowcapped Mountains and Beach, Trygghamna Bay, Oscar II Land, Arctic, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Europe

view on Thingvallavatn Lake, the largest natural lake in Iceland. The deepest point of the lake is at 114 meters.

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Ship based tourism guest numbers is increasing year on year in Antarctica.

$Main reason glaciers have begun to melt is because of human activity. The rising temperature of the Earth is the primary reason glaciers have started to melt more, and this climate change can be directly tied back to human activity. Glaciers are practically on the edge of extinction. \nCarbon dioxide emissions are one big culprit. The mass amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases produced by human business, transportation, deforestation, and fossil fuel usage, rise into the air where they stop the heat from the sun from bouncing back out to space. As a result, temperatures rise, and glaciers melt.\nAnother reason for ice melt is the warming of the oceans. These large bodies of water absorb 90% of the Earth's total warmth, meaning that sea ice floating in the ocean are subject to higher temperatures and naturally melt as a result.\nHuman activity is not responsible for all the causes of glacier melt. In some areas, complex interactions between wind and ocean circulation patterns have helped to push naturally occurring warm water closer to the edge of the ice. Still, as a result of all the broader climate change effects, glaciers are rapidly melting with huge chunks falling off into the sea, while elsewhere the ice begins to retreat to land. \nThe biggest and most notable impact of these glaciers melting is in the rise of sea level. In total the sea has risen by 2.7 centimeters since the 60s and the world's glaciers still contain enough to raise the ocean by another half a meter, which could directly threaten many cities in coastal regions. As a result of these rising sea levels, coastal erosion has also increased.$