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Along the Bellingshausen Sea coast of West Antarctica, ice has been retreating inland being lost to the sea. Scientists knew this, but they lacked a full picture of the scale. Now a team of researchers has compiled a Landsat-based data set and found that such losses have been going on for at least the past four decades. via NASA ift.tt/28OJdyC
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Pervasive Ice Retreat in West Antarctica was taken on June 21, 2016 at 09:04AM