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Climate change: Satellites record history of Antarctic melting – Yahoo News Australia
European spacecraft track in fine detail the thinning that’s occurred at the continent’s edge.
Twenty-five years of satellite observations have been used to reconstruct a detailed history of Antarctica’s ice shelves.
These ice platforms are the floating protrusions of glaciers flowing off the land, and ring the entire continent.
The European Space Agency data-set confirms the shelves’ melting trend.
As a whole, they’ve shed close to 4,000 gigatons since 1994 – an amount of meltwater that could all but fill America’s Grand Canyon.
But the innovation here is not so much the fact that th…
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