Big Shelves Of Antarctic Ice Melting Faster Than Scientists Thought

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British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, 5 Jan 1911. Photographed by Herbert Ponting. Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Photo source: ©© National Library NZ

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The Antarctic is far away, freezing and buried under a patchwork of ice sheets and glaciers. But a warming climate is altering that mosaic in unpredictable ways — research published Thursday shows that the pace of change in parts of the Antarctic is accelerating…

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Original Study: “Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating,” Science

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