BOULDER, Colorado, Nov. 4 (TNSjou) -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: * * * Antarctic glacier retreated faster than any other in modern history Unprecedented speed of retreat is similar to dramatic glacier retreats that occurred at the end of the last ice age * A glacier on Antarctica's Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history--in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated.   more