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    Study: In 25 years, West Antarctica tripled its rate of ice loss

    by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Jun 13, 2018 3 minutes

    The Antarctic ice sheet lost nearly 3 trillion metric tons of ice from 1992 to 2017 and tripled its rate of loss over that time for West Antarctica, according to an international collaboration involving some 80 scientists.

    The finding published in Nature reveals that Antarctica's ice is shrinking at an unprecedented rate and would mean an even higher sea level rise by 2100 - with serious implications for the environment

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