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Scientists See Record Decline In Greenland And Antarctic Ice Sheets

2014-08-21 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RedOrbit: Data from the European Space Agency`s (ESA) CryoSat-2 spacecraft has been used to map elevation and elevation changes in both Greenland and Antarctica by a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany. The new maps, which are the most complete to ever be created from a single satellite mission, reveal the ice sheets are losing volume at an unprecedented yearly rate (approximately 500 cubic kilometers). The study findings and maps were recently published in The Cryosphere....

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