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Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss
Description: Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by NASA and university scientists. They estimated changes in Antarctica's ice mass between 1996 and 2006 and mapped patterns of ice loss on a glacier-by- glacier basis. They detected a sharp jump in Antarctica's ice loss, from enough ice to raise global sea level by 0.3 millimeters (.01 inches) a year in 1996, to 0.5 millimeters (.02 inches) a year in 2006. [Source: NASA Earth Observatory]
URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2008/2008012326052.html
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Source: NASA Earth Observatory
Publish Date: 1/23/2008
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