New Scientist: AS ANTARCTICA melts, seaways will open up across the western side of the continent, linking marine communities that have long been isolated from one another.
That's according to David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues, who have worked out where these seaways opened up during Antarctica's warmer past - and where they are likely to form again if melting continues.
Without its icy cover, much of west Antarctica would lie beneath sea level, partly because......
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Seaways across Antarctica could open in 1000 years
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2011
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