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Two ice sheets hold most of Earth's fresh water
The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets together contain more than 99 percent of the land ice and over 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth.
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An ice sheet is a mass of glacial land ice covering more than 50,000 square kilometers. The Antarctic Ice Sheet alone covers almost 14 million square kilometers.
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