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Is Antarctica becoming more like Greenland?
November 20, 2018
Antarctica is high and dry and mostly bitterly cold, and it's easy to think of its ice and snow as locked away in a freezer, protected from melt except around its low-lying coasts and floating ice shelves. But that view may be wrong. Full Story
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University of Colorado Boulder
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