Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:49
in Earth & Climate
Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by NASA and university scientists.
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