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Antarctica: warming ocean trebles glacial melt

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Ecologist (UK)

Publication Date
2014-12-18

As temperatures rise in the Southern Ocean, warmer currents are eroding the Antarctic ice sheet from below, writes Tim Radford - causing the melting rate to treble in two decades to 83 billion tonnes a year.

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http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2680408/antarctica_warming_ocean_trebles_glacial_melt.html