On the Cover
January-February 2002 Volume 90, Number 1
These sculpted icebergs, slowly melting as they float through the
Southern Ocean, provide a quiet reminder that the ice covering
Antarctica is not a static mass. Should the vast ice sheet now
overlaying western Antarctica disappear, sea level would rise some six
meters, flooding the world's coastlines. ...
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A vast ice sheet once covered the Barents Sea. Its sudden disappearance 100 centuries ago provides a lesson about western Antarctica today
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