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Antarctic ice loss challenged by new NASA study
2015-10-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning News: The hostile home of the blizzard may have been more like a climate change friend. A new NASA study challenges an accepted belief that Antarctica has lost billions of tonnes more ice to melt, than it has gained through snowfall. Instead, according to the study findings, the vast East Antarctic ice sheet accumulated snow at a high enough rate in recent decades to outweigh losses elsewhere around the frozen continent, and to reduce sea level. The fate of Antarctica's land-bound ice is seen...
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