thwaites glacier
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Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Level Since 1970s
Sea ice around Antarctica has dropped to the lowest level in more than 40 years, according to satellite data from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
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Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier Is Close to Becoming Unhinged
There’s nothing like sitting through a series of presentations about all the ways one of the most imperiled glaciers on Earth to get the blood flowing.
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There’s A Huge Cavity Under Antarctica’s Most Endangered Glacier
Antarctica is the font of bad news that just keeps on giving. Thwaites Glacier, among the most threatened hunks of ice on the continent, is in even more dire straits than previously reported. Its melt from above and below is being aided by newly discovered cavities below the ice, as chronicled in Science Advances on…