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Exploring Beneath Earth’s Changing Ice Sheets
If just the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt, it would raise global sea level by 6 meters. That’s more than a theoretical problem. West Antarctica is losing ice mass, and scientists are worried.
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Antarctica’s Retreating Ice
While the ice sheets on West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula are usually the ones to make the news in relation to climate change, recent studies have documented transformations that are taking place on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet as well. On the continent as a whole, large areas of ice have already melted and…
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No Longer Anchored, Antarctic Ice Stream Surges to Sea
Under-Ice Sub Finds Ridge That May Have Held Back Pine Island Glacier
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Nearly All of Antarctica Is Warming
New Study Shows Steady 50-Year Rise
