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Ice, Ice Scraping
Antarctic icebergs scraping seafloor bare more often due to climate change |
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18 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:14 AM on 18 Jul 2008 The warming Antarctic is changing life on the seafloor as well as above as icebergs freed from surrounding sea ice earlier than in previous years can pummel bottom-dwelling creatures for much of the year, according to a new study. "Our results suggest that as the winter sea-ice season shortens, the thousands of icebergs that float around the coastline of the Antarct ... |
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