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Antarctic Peninsula melting season is getting longer

2013-04-04 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Planet Earth: The summer melting season in the Antarctic Peninsula has lengthened over the last 60 years, new research shows. This is contributing to sea-level rise, and may be linked to the rapid break-up of ice shelves in the area. The Antarctic Peninsula, a mountainous finger of land pointing northwards towards South America, is warming much faster than the rest of Antarctica. Temperatures have risen by almost 3°C since the 1950s -- three times faster than the global average. Scientists think this...

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