Environmental

NASA-UCI Study Indicates Loss of West Antarctic Glaciers Appears Unstoppable

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Glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea Embayment have “passed the point of no return” according to new research based on three different lines of evidence. Image Credit: NASA/Eric Rignot

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 13, 2014.  A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area…

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