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Ice Melt

Antarctica / Arctic - Greenland

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Grounded and floating ice mass change from 2003 to 2019 using NASA’s ICESat and ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry

• https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/29/science.aaz5845

• https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/climate-change-antarctica-greenland-ice-melt-raised-sea-levels-by-half-inch-in-last-16-years.html

• https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/us/nasa-ice-sheet-loss-climate-change-trnd/index.html

• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/climate/antarctica-ice-climate-change.html

Satellites Let Scientists See Antarctica’s Melting Like Never Before

April 30, 2020

New data from space is providing the most precise picture yet of Antarctica’s ice, where it is accumulating most quickly and disappearing at the fastest rate, and how the changes could contribute to rising sea levels.

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