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New study casts doubt on how much sea levels may rise from collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet
Posted by Environmental News Network: British Antarctic Survey on November 24th, 2015
Environmental News Network: A new study by scientists in the UK and France has found that Antarctic ice sheet collapse will have serious consequences for sea level rise over the next two hundred years, though not as much as some have suggested.
This study, published this week in the journal Nature, uses an ice-sheet model to predict the consequences of unstable retreat of the ice, which recent studies suggest has begun in West Antarctica.
An international team of researchers, including a scientist from British Antarctic...
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Comments Off on New study casts doubt on how much sea levels may rise from collapse of the Antarctic ice sheetAntarctic Ice Shelves found to be thinning from the top AND the bottom
Posted by Environmental News Network: British Antarctic Survey on May 17th, 2015
Environmental News Network: A decade-long scientific debate about what’s causing the thinning of one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves is settled this week (Wednesday 13 May) with the publication of an international study in the journal The Cryosphere.
The Larsen C Ice Shelf — whose neighbours Larsen A and B, collapsed in 1995 and 2002 — is thinning from both its surface and beneath. For years scientists have been unable to determine whether it is warming air temperatures or warmer ocean currents that were causing the...
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