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Published online 13 January 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.438
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Antarctic ice loss speeding up
Shrinking continent is losing ice faster today than a decade ago.
A comprehensive study of Antarctica’s ice confirms that the polar cap is shrinking. In 2006 alone, Antarctica lost nearly 200 billion tonnes of ice, researchers say — the equivalent of a global sea level rise of more than half a millimetre.
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