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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Ice Adrift From Warming Scrapes Antarctic Seabed Bare


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An iceberg drifts in North Bay, near Adelaide Island in Antarctica.

A July 2008 study in the journal Science has found that rapid warming along the Antarctic Peninsula is increasing the number of massive icebergs that break free, drift, and scour away life along the seafloor.

Photograph from the British Antarctic Survey