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Ice cliffs in Pine Island Bay

‘Scars’ left by icebergs record West Antarctic ice retreat

25 Oct 2017

Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of...

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Antarctic Ice Sheet study reveals 8,000-year record of climate change

12 Dec 2016

An international team of researchers has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in regional and global climate variability – a...

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