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Warm ocean water is causing the largest glacier in East Antarctica to melt. It contains ice that if melted, will be equivalent to a 20-foot or 6-meter rise in global sea levels. Australian scientists said waters around the Totten Glacier, 120-kilometers long and over 30 kilometers wide, were warmer than expected and likely melting the ice from below. Scientist Steve Rintoul, who went with a team of scientists on a voyage to East Antarctica, said the warm water shows that “East Antarctica is not as protected from change as we use to think.”
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