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Climate Change Linked to Disappearance of Ice Free Regions in Antarctica

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Climate Change Linked to Disappearance of Ice Free Region Polynya in Antarctica (Photo : NASA via Reuters, file)

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scienceworldreport.com - March 4, 2014

A team of international scientists says that climate change is responsible for the recent disappearance of the ice free regions known as polynya in the Antarctica. . .

. . . However, the new study led by researchers at McGill University claims that the Weddell polynya of the 1970s may have been the last event, of what was earlier a common feature of southern Ocean, and is currently suppressed due to the effects of the accelerating climate change on the salinity of the ocean.

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