Ice sheet highs, lows and loss

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 09:11 in Earth & Climate

Measurements from ESA’s CryoSat mission have been used to map the height of the huge ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica and show how they are changing. New results reveal combined ice volume loss at an unprecedented rate of 500 cubic kilometres a year.

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