Green Options » West Antarctica http://greenoptions.com/tag/west-antarctica Posts tagged 'West Antarctica' Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:32:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en West Antarctic Ice Loss Grows http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/13/west-antarctic-ice-loss-grows/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/13/west-antarctic-ice-loss-grows/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:32:41 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/13/west-antarctic-ice-loss-grows/ Antarctica (photo by Jerzy Strzelecki)Researchers at the University of Bristol report that the West Antarctic lost 132 billion tons of ice in 2006, compared to 83 billion tons in 1996. “To put these figures into perspective,” said professor Jonathan Bamber, “four billion tons of ice is enough to provide drinking water for the whole of the U.K. population for one year.”

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