Fastest Rates Of Glacier Retreat Ever Observed
2016 CE • Antarctica
“Two new studies by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine detect the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented direct view of intense ice melting from the oating undersides of glaciers.”
Gabrielle Walker, “Opinion | The Great Thaw,” The New York Times, June 21, 2012.
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