West Antarctic Ice Loss Grows
Researchers at the University of Bristol report that the West Antarctic lost 132 billion tons of ice in 2006, compared to 83 billion tons in 1996. “To put these figures into perspective,” said professor Jonathan Bamber, “four billion tons of ice is enough to provide drinking water for the whole of the U.K. population for one year.”
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