Antarctic Icebergs Are ‘Hotspots’ for Marine Life
By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 21 June 2007 02:00 pm ET
The ever-increasing number of free-floating icebergs breaking off Antarctica due to Earth’s warming temperatures are serving as “hotspots” for life, with seabirds swooping above and complex webs of marine life teeming below, a new study shows.
Global warming is showing its most dramatic effect at Earth’s poles so far, and the rising temperatures are causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart into thousands of icebergs that drift out to sea.
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