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April 07, 2009

A Rhode Island Size Ice Loss

A new USGS report released on April 3rd "documents for the first time that one ice shelf has completely disappeared and another has lost a chunk three times the size of Rhode Island."  This research is part of a larger ongoing project that is for the first time studying the entire Antarctic coastline.

The research in Antarctica is a collaborative effort of the USGS and the British Antarctic Survey, with the assistance of the Scott Polar Research Institute and Germany's Bundesamt fűr Kartographie und Geodäsie.  

Here is a link to the report, "Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1940-2005" and its accompanying map. 

The other completed reports in the Coastal Change and Glaciological Maps of Antarctica series are also available online.

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