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Article: Rising sea levels could break Earth's largest ice sheet
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- The Hindustan Times
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- June 25, 2007
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Washington, June 25 -- A new study undertaken by the University of Victoria in Wellington, New Zealand, has suggested that rising sea levels brought on by the phenomenon of global warming could eventually lead to the destruction of Earth's largest ice sheet in the East Antarctic region.
According to Andrew Mackintosh and members of his research team, the the air over the East Antarctic ice sheet will remain chilly enough to prevent significant melting for at least a century.
But after that, rising sea levels, caused by melting elsewhere, could be the ice sheet's undoing, Mackintosh adds.
Mackintosh and his team ...