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- Previously stable zones of Antarctica are now falling victim to climate change Thu, 2 Aug 18, 9:30amUnlike its counterpart, West Antarctica, which has long been decimated by melting ice caps, East Antarctica used to be a safe zone - something scientists could depend on as a constant while they solved the more pressing destruction...
- World’s Largest Tropical Ice Sheet Took at Least 1,600 Years to Form and Only 25 to Melt Fri, 19 Apr 13, 4:01amThe Quelccya ice cap in the Andes Mountains of Peru took upwards of 1,600 years to form, and it could have formed as long as 6,000 years ago, but it took just 25 years to melt away...
- Study Finds Global Ice Loss in Recent Years Was Enough to Cover the U.S. in 1.5 Feet of Water Wed, 15 Feb 12, 2:06amUsing NASA and the German Aerospace Center’s Gravity Recover and Climate Experiment satellites (GRACE), researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered that the Earth’s ice caps and glaciers...