24 Nov 2009

Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official

More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.
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World's biggest ice sheet is melting
THE world's largest frozen water mass, the East Antarctic ice sheet, has been found for the first time to be losing ice at an increased rate.

For years scientists have worried about the smaller West Antarctic ice sheet's net melt, and some recent studies reported that the eastern sheet was growing slightly, due to snowfall.
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Update 26 Nov:
Aussies eye iceberg as floating bar ????

Update 4 Dec: Aussies' iceberg party plans drift away

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