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Bookmark or Share- East Antarctica's ice is melting at an unexpectedly rapid ... - ScienceNow, scientists studying 40 years of satellite images have found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet—considered largely insulated from the ravages of climate change—may also be melting at an accelerating rate.
- Why East Antarctica is a 'sleeping giant' of sea level rise - BBCScientists once thought the East Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough water to raise sea levels 52m (170ft), was stable. But now its ice shelves are beginning to melt.
- Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice SheetThe East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the water equivalent of approximately 50 metres of sea-level rise. Understanding the past behaviour of this mass of ice is therefore of much interest...
- Poleward shift of Circumpolar Deep Water threatens the East Antarctic ...During the past four decades, the contribution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to sea-level rise has increased. However, unlike for West Antarctica, the causes of East Antarctic ice-mass...
- Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate ...The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth’s glacier ice (about 52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming than...
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