NASA: mass gains of Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses

The Ecologist
Nov 4, 2015, 7:40 am121 pts
Antarctic glaciers are famously losing ice around the margins of the continent, writes Maria-José Viñas. But a new study from NASA shows that those losses are offset three times over by ice thickening in central Antarctica, causing sea levels to drop. However the net ice gain may run of steam in coming decades.

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