ATLANTIC OCEAN

I remember folks back in the 1970's saying the we had 50 years to address the rising temperatures in the ocean, which Exxon scientists had discovered in the 1960's. I'd say we're too late, because unless you can put the melting ice back in the icebox it isn't going to re-freeze. Our icebox is gone... Millions of people dependent on Himalayan snowmelt for water face a "very serious" risk of shortages this year after one of the lowest rates of snowfall, scientists warned Monday... The level of the Caspian Sea is not constant, it rises and falls periodically. The last time the sea level fell in the second half of the last century, the lowest figure was recorded in 1978. After that, starting in 1979, the level of the Caspian Sea began to rise.