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Climate change affecting deepest depths of Antarctic ocean, study finds
2014-03-04 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The impacts of climate change are being felt at even the deepest depths of the Antarctic ocean, a new study has found, in a discovery that may explain a 40 year old mystery. In the mid-1970s, the first satellite images to be studied of Antarctica during the polar winter discovered a strange phenomenon. In the Weddell Sea, researchers noticed a huge ice-free region known as a polynia that remained open for three winters. Scientists found that the polynia was kept open by warm waters that...
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