Researchers Document Widespread Melting on Antarctica's Huge Ross Ice Shelf

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Jun 15, 2017, 12:22 pm113 pts
Large-scale melting of snow and ice on Antarctica's massive Ross Ice Shelf, brought about by an unusually warm stretch of weather in the summer of 2016, is one of the first documented cases of widespread surface melting of the Ross Ice Shelf and other regions of West Antarctica, according to a new study…

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