(FAP, April 22)-according to CNN local time on April 20, new satellite data found that the Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet are melting rapidly, causing sea levels to rise. New research shows that over the past 30 years, Earth's ice sheet has lost enough ice to form a 12-mile (19-kilometer) thick ice, the report said. The Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet, which store almost all the world's freshwater ice, are shrinking at an alarming rate, an international team of scientists reported Monday. Scientists from the Ice sheet Mass balance comparison Test Project combined data from 50 satellite surveys of Antarctica and Greenland between 1992 and 2020 to track changes in ice sheet volume and ice flow. They found that ice sheet melting has increased sixfold over the past 30 years as record levels of pollution leading to global warming have pushed up global temperatures.