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Increasing Amounts Of Ice Mass Have Been Lost From West Antarctica (Science Daily) |
Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to new research. Scientists arrived at a best estimate of a loss of 132 billion tons of ice in 2006 from West Antarctica — up from about 83 billion tons in 1996 — and a loss of about 60 billion tons in 2006 from the Antarctic Peninsula. …
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