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Antarctica has lost nearly 3 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992 [1]

It can be easy to overlook the monstrous scale of the Antarctic ice sheet. Ice, thick enough in many places to bury mountains, covers a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined.

Publication Date: 
20/06/2018
News 24 (South Africa) [2]
Tags:
Climate Change [3], Global Warming [4], Antarctica [5], Climate Impacts [6], IPCC [7], Sea Level Rise [8], COP 21 (Paris) [9]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/antarctica
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ipcc
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sea-level-rise
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cop-21-paris