Posts tagged…Antarctic

How bad is polar ice loss?

Sat, Apr 11 2009

News reports everywhere are picking up the theme of 'alarm' over the extent of ice cover at the poles.

"‘What we’re seeing is very dramatic,’ said Andrew Fleming, remote sensing manager at the British Antarctic Survey. ‘It’s very worrying.’ Scientists believed the effects were linked to the ‘very strong warming’ at the poles, he said. The Antarctic peninsula has warmed by more than 3ºC in the…

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