Antarctica glaciers crumbling rapidly, accelerating global sea-level rise — Nasa - BusinessLIVE

The world’s largest ice sheet is shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the ice, Nasa satellite analysis shows

Taken together, thinning and calving have reduced the mass of Antarcticas ice shelves by 12-trillion tonnes since 1997, double the previous estimate, the analysis concluded. The net loss of the cont… [+2704 chars]

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