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Ocean warming primary cause of Antarctic Peninsula glacier retreat
2016-07-14 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study has found for the first time that ocean warming is the primary cause of retreat of glaciers on the western Antarctic Peninsula. The Peninsula is one of the largest current contributors to sea-level rise and this new finding will enable researchers to make better predictions of ice loss from this region. The research, by scientists at Swansea University and British Antarctic Survey, is published in the journal Science today (Friday, July 15). The study reports that glaciers flowing...
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