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Antarctica is gaining ice: NASA
2015-11-02 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jagran Post: According to the analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tonnes of ice a year from 1992 to 2001.The net gain slowed to 82 billion tonnes of ice per year between 2003 and 2008. "We are essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica," explained Jay Zwally, glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland. ...
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