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[writerspleasure.livejournal.com]

New estimates of ice melt from Earth's glaciers, made during a study tracking how water is transported across Earth's surface, find that the amount of ice lost to the seas is smaller than scientists previously thought. The new study also finds that Earth's center of mass is actually shifting. - Using new methods, the study researchers calculated new estimates of ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica that are significantly smaller than previous estimates. - The new estimates reflect the role that post-glacial rebound was found to play in current ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica. Post-glacial rebound is the response of the solid Earth to the retreat of glaciers. After the weight of ice from the land surface was removed as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, the land under the ice rose and continues to slowly rise.

- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39382469/ns/technology_and_science-science/