50 years ago, scientists clocked the speed of Antarctic ice
Excerpt from the August 22, 1970 issue of Science News
Fifty years ago, glaciologists suspected Antarctica continually shed ice into the sea. Today, we know that the continent does and that climate change is accelerating the process, leading to sea level rise.
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Soviet research in Antarctica, Science News, August 22 & 29, 1970 —
There is a hypothesis that the Great Antarctic [Ice] Shield is gradually sliding into the sea at a rate of about 330 feet a year.…