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NASA study shows decades of ice loss in Antarctica
14/08/2022 07:06 PM | Click to read full article
The edge of Antarctica's ice sheet has lost about 12 trillion metric tons of ice, according to a NASA-led study based on satellite imagery and published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
That rather alarming fact is made worse by the researchers' realization that this figure is twice what previous estimates suggested and Earth's climate warming is a result of human-induced climate change.
