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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]
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