Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting Rapidly...

Washington Post   |  Juliet Eilperin   |   March 2, 2006 10:24 PM


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The Antarctic ice sheet is losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year in a trend that scientists link to global warming, according to a new paper that provides the first evidence that the sheet's total mass is shrinking significantly.

The new findings, which are being published today in the journal Science, suggest that global sea level could rise substantially over the next several centuries.

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