Antarctica: warming ocean trebles glacial melt

The Ecologist
Dec 17, 2014, 12:04 pm77 pts
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 cubic billion tonnes a year.

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