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Melting Antarctic Ice May Trigger Unstoppable Sea-Level Rise

2014-05-05 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Yet another melting ice formation in Antarctica may dump so much water into the ocean that it could trigger an unstoppable rise in sea level for thousands of years to come, a new study published in Nature Climate Change revealed. The current region threatening to raise our seas is the Wilkes Basin, the largest region of marine ice on rocky ground in East Antarctica. Currently, only a rim of ice at the coast holds the ice behind in place. "East Antarctica's Wilkes Basin is like a bottle on a...

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