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Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean |
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By Martin Redfern, BBC News, February 24, 2008
UK scientists working in Antarctica have found some
of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of
West Antarctica.
If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in global sea level.
The new evidence comes from a group of glaciers covering
an area the size of Texas, in a remote and seldom visited part of West
Antarctica.
The "rivers of ice" have surged sharply in speed towards the ocean.
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