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Science 24 September 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5692, p. 1897
DOI: 10.1126/science.305.5692.1897
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
A Bit of Icy Antarctica Is Sliding Toward the Sea

Richard A. Kerr

The latest gauging of West Antarctic glaciers, reported online this week in Science (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1099650), confirms that when the ocean eats at one end of a glacier, it can draw far-distant ice toward the sea, with potentially dangerous consequences.

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