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 Stories About: Antarctica AND climate AND news AND US Geological Survey
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Ice Hassles
Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting |
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22 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Ice Hassles Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting Wanna travel to Antarctica, but worried about all that ice? Worry no more. On the Antarctic Peninsula, a 1,200-mile-long mountain chain 600 miles south of Argentina, about 212 of the 244 glaciers are retreating, fast. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey studied photos and satellite data from the 1940s to 2001, concluding ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, news, US Geological Survey (all these topics) |
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