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News Release 16-144
New study reveals that West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s
NSF's U.S. Antarctic Program contributed to British Antarctic Survey's study
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A U.S. Antarctic Program helicopter circles the Pine Island Glacier field camp in this 2013 photo.
Credit: August Allen, NSF
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