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1 week ago

Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is on the verge of COLLAPSING

Underwater submesoscale vortexes are melting Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers from below, increasing ice-shelf thinning and raising risks of accelerated sea-level rise.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 months ago

U.S. Researchers May Never Probe Deep into Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier' Again Without This Ship

'Only one vessel—the U.S. research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer—has successfully penetrated the area's phalanx of sea ice...to reach a critical location on Thwaites, widely considered the world's most dangerous glacier.'
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