American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 6237(348), p. 899-903, 2015
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Increasingly rapid ice sheet melting Glaciers on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula have begun losing mass at a rapid and accelerating rate. Wouters et al. documented the dramatic thinning of the land-based ice, which began in 2009, using satellite altimetry and gravity observations. The melting and weakening of ice shelves reduce their buttressing effect, allowing the glaciers to flow more quickly to the sea. Science , this issue p. 899