ICE LOSS IN ANTARCTICA MATCHES THAT IN GREENLAND

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SCIENTIFIC BLOGGING - Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in
the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is
now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new,
comprehensive study by UC Irvine and NASA scientists. . .

The team found that the net loss of ice mass from Antarctica increased
from 112 (plus or minus 91) gigatons a year in 1996 to 196 (plus or
minus 92) gigatons a year in 2006. A gigaton is one billion metric tons,
or more than 2.2 trillion pounds. . .

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/
study_antarctic_ice_loss_rate_nearly_matches_greenland


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