Warm Ocean Melting East Antarctica’s Largest Glacier

Agence France-Presse, Raw Story: Science
Mon, 01/26/2015 - 3:49am

The largest glacier in East Antarctica, containing ice equivalent to a six-metre (20-foot) rise in global sea levels, is melting due to warm ocean water, Australian scientists said on Monday. The 120-kilometre (74.4 mile) long Totten Glacier, which is more than 30 kilometres wide, had been thought t...

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