Wednesday, 3 December 2014

West Antarctic Melt Rate Has Tripled: NASA-UC Irvine

Glaciers seen during NASA's Operation IceBridge research flight to West Antarctica on Oct. 29, 2014.



A comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.










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