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Wilkins ice sheet

Antarctic Ice Report from the USGS – authors say "widely regarded as among the most profound and unambiguous examples of the effects of global warming yet seen on the planet"

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Antarctica is shrinking and the rate of melt and ice discharge is accelerating. In the last 20 years an area of ice almost the size of Alaska has been lost. Every ice front on the southern section of the peninsula has been retreating from 1947 to 2009, with the most dramatic changes since 1990.This U.S….

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