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Climate-driven melting of snow and ice continues to swell many lakes in the Himalayas, increasing the risk of catastrophic flooding in downstream communities, new data show.

This melting will lead to a rise in sea levels of up to one metre, threatening millions of people in coastal areas.

"With the ice melting rapidly, such communities might be replaced by the more generalist ones we found elsewhere."

In the case of polar sea ice, which is melting at a pace unrivaled by any period in the past 1,500 years, a reversal would entail halting melt and reestablishing ice cover.

Beyond the melting shadows of the arena, gladiatrices would have heard thousands of faceless spectators howl obscenities, felt the heat of their breath, and smelled the mass of bodies raging in the night.