Wednesday, November 30, 2016

New study reveals when West Antarctica's largest glacier started retreating


New study reveals when West Antarctica's largest glacier started retreating

11/30/2016 12:37 PM EST

the Pine Island Glacier field camp

Reporting this week in the journal Nature an international team led by British Antarctic Survey explains that present-day thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest shrinking glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is part of a climate trend that was already underway as early as the 1940s.


Full story at https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/new-study-reveals-when-west-antarcticas-largest-glacier-started-retreating/

Source
British Antarctic Survey


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