Agence France-Presse: Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising the sea level and fuelling climate change, a scientific survey revealed Wednesday. Warming in the Antarctic was “much more widespread than was thought,” while Arctic sea ice wass diminishing and the melting of Greenland’s ice cover was accelerating, said the International Polar Year survey. The frozen and often inaccessible polar regions have long been regarded as …