Antarctic study identifies melting ice sheet’s role in sea level rise

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Antarctica. Photo source: ©© Benjamin Dumas

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Loss of ice in Antarctica caused by a warming ocean could raise global sea levels by three meters, research suggests…

In the first study of its kind, researchers were able to gauge how levels of ice covering the land have changed over hundreds of thousands of years. They did so by studying peaks protruding through ice in the Ellsworth Mountains, on the Atlantic flank of Antarctica…

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