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Oceans Eating Away at Yet Another Part of Antarctica
2016-07-14 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming spots on the planet, and it was thought that the rising air temperature was driving the melt of the glaciers along its fringes. But it is actually warm ocean waters that are eating away at the ice along part of its western side, a group of scientists reported Thursday in the journal Science. Icebergs that have newly calved from glacier fronts in Marguerite Bay on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The study adds to a spate of research...
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