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Ice in east Antarctica a bigger threat long term (The Charlotte Observer) |
(By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent) Antarctica’s western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies here 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, the world’s thinly spread …
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