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"The effect of the extra snow locked up in Antarctica is to slightly slow a general trend in global sea-level rise. However, this mitigation is still swamped by the contribution to the height of the oceans from ice melt around the continent."
(BBC.co.uk, United Kingdom)"To highlight environmental change and impacts in the Kangerlussuaq area, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, has released a special issue, to examine how past, present and future climate impacts may affect this landscape."
(EurekAlert.org)"These ponds absorb extra sunlight, because they’re darker than ice, which in turn causes the rest of the ice to melt faster. Their size and shape also influence how ice breaks up, and how much light gets to organisms living below the ice."
(UChicago.edu)"The algal blooms that seem to thrive where ice has recently disappeared could damper climate change by trapping carbon in the deep ocean."
(ScienceMag.org)"Although meteorites frequently fall all over the world, they get concentrated in special places in Antarctica, making them easier to find."
(Phys.Org)"The spectacular retreat of Jorge Montt in the 1990s is explained by the bathymetry: the glacier retreated along a reverse bed during these years; that is, a bed that is getting deeper inland."
(Forbes.com)"Deep seafloor troughs allow warm water to eat away at the ice from below, speeding shrinkage."
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