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Climate change: Norwegian seafloor holds clue to Antarctic melting

Antarctica's melting ice sheet could retreat much faster than previously thought, new research suggests. The evidence comes from markings on the seafloor off Norway that record the pull-back of a melting European ice sheet thousands of years ago.

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Thwaites "doomsday" Glacier disintegrating faster than thought

A large glacier in Antarctica that could raise sea levels by several feet is disintegrating faster than last predicted, according to a new study published Monday in the journal in Nature Geoscience.

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Doomsday glacier in Antarctica could collapse soon: new research

New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog for this.”

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Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is in trouble, new data shows

Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research in Science Advances shows that things aren’t looking good.

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If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever

Thwaites Glacier is melting fast, and scientists fear its collapse could one day destabilize surrounding glaciers and eventually trigger up to 11 feet of global sea level rise.

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