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Expedition Finds Greater Warming Threat in Antarctica’s East (TechNewsWorld.com) |
Antarctica’s western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica. An “absolutely titanic” store of ice that sits atop the east Antarctic plateau should be more closely monitored by glaciologists, says the leader of a recent expedition there.
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