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Climate change can alter the planet's shape
2015-10-03 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: As melting glaciers erode the land, global warming could alter the shape of the planet, a new study says. "Antarctica is warming up, and as it moves to temperatures above 0-degrees celsius, the glaciers are all going to start moving faster," said study lead author Michele Koppes, assistant professor at University of British Columbia. "We are already seeing that the ice sheets are starting to move faster and should become more erosive, digging deeper valleys and shedding more sediment into the oceans,"...
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