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There are fresh fears that Europe's biggest glacier is melting fast, and could disappear within 100 years.

Vatnajokull in Iceland covers 8,000 square kilometres, and at its deepest point is more than 900 metres thick.

But experts say it's melting at a rate of a metre a year, because of rising temperatures and reduced snow fall.

They've warned that all of the country's glaciers are melting, and that rising sea levels could cause bad floods in other parts of the world.
Who: Europe Glacier Why: Global Warming How: global warming What: Melting