'Antarctica Is Crumbling at Its Edges': NASA Study Reveals Decades of Ice Loss - CNET

"It's unlikely Antarctica can grow back to its pre-2000 extent by the end of this century," researchers say.

Since 1997, the edge of Antarctica's ice sheet has lost about 12 trillion metric tons of ice, according to a NASA-led study based on satellite imagery published Wednesday in the journal Nature. That … [+4706 chars]

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