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Cryosphere, oceans and sea level

Ice, oceans and the rising sea: glaciers and glacial lakes, permafrost, polar ice, ocean heat and acidity, and sea level. Prelims has asked which rivers rise from which Himalayan glaciers, and about the source and course of the Teesta.

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