Friday 23 May 2014

Antarctica's ice losses on the rise

ICE WORLD
Antarctica's ice losses on the rise
Leeds, UK (SPX) May 23, 2014 - Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year - twice as much as when it was last surveyed. A team of scientists from the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, led by researchers at the University of Leeds, have produced the first complete assessment of Antarctic ice sheet elevation change. They used measurements co ... more


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