Quick climate changes revealed in Antarctica
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A decade ago, a thick layer of ice covered with Collines Glacier on Antarctica's King George Island. Now the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a laboratory for climate change. "I had the opportunity to come here over a 15-year period, and even within a human's lifetime, you can already see the changes brought about by climate change," the director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), Marcelo Leppe, told AFP.
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Quick climate changes revealed in Antarctica. (2018, March 2). Manila Standard, p. B3.
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Climatic changes; Algae; Food chains; Ecosystems; Ecological balance; Temperature; Temperature effects; Environmental protection; Water temperature; Bioclimatology; Marine resources; Sea level changes; Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH); Escudero, Julio; Valdivia, Nelson; Leppe, Marcelo; Antarctica; Chile
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