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Some 20 more are missing, dozens more injured. the collapse came after days of rain. at least one of the boats sunk under the falling rock. in pakistan today, at least 22 people, many of them children, are known to have died in a massive snowstorm. victims were stuck and stranded in their vehicles overnight on a highway near a mountain resort town. the snow measured four feet deep in some areas. the latest assessment of the once-reliably frozen arctic is causing alarm among climate scientists. in tonight's "eye on earth," cbs' roxana saberi reports the changes could ripple across the entire gl...

Against the edge of the vast ice sheet. this massive wall of ice behind me... and since i first filmed there, temperatures have just kept rising. and ice that had seemed permanent has retreated. back in 2004, it would have been 100 metres thicker than it is now. that's like having a 30—storey building sitting on top. it's alljust going at an incredible speed. the ice was vanishing beneath my feet faster than anyone believed possible,

To it many times. it was greenland that really unnerved me. it may be remote, but there's enough ice here to raise the global sea level by 7 metres. i could see for myself a frightening pace of change. 0ur helicopter seemed tiny against the edge of the vast ice sheet. this massive wall of ice behind me... and since i first filmed there, temperatures have just kept rising. and ice that had seemed permanent has retreated. back in 2004, it would have been 100 metres thicker than it is now. that's like having a 30—storey building sitting on top. it's alljust going at an incredible speed.

Are, so far away from it. the thing is what is happening is theiceis thing is what is happening is the ice is going into the ocean and ultimately reaching our shorelines, we ever we may live, whether it's great britain or the united states or anywhere else in the world, we all have shorelines in the global sea level rise is ever so slowly rising because of this extra ice that's been added to the ocean from the melting of the ice sheet. giue melting of the ice sheet. give us an idea- — melting of the ice sheet. give us an idea. we _ melting of the ice sheet. give us an idea. we hear- melting ...

Ice that is on the ice sheet. and we are talking largely about freshwater ice. that in itself must be having an impact as it slides back into the sea? yes, exactly. it is freshwater because it essentially ice that has formed, snow fell, that's how ice gets added to antarctica, snowfall, and that turns into ice over time. yes when that freshwater reaches the ocean, that will effect the circulation around antarctica, and it all has an impact. l’m and it all has an impact. i'm sorry to _ and it all has an impact. i'm sorry to end _ and it all has an impact. i'm sorry to end on _ and it all has ...