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The Pine Island glacier is speeding up as its ice shelf disintegrates

The Pine Island glacier is speeding up as its ice shelf disintegrates

Without its icy restraint holding it back from the ocean, the Pine Island glacier could dramatically add to sea level rise.
Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is in trouble, new data shows

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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New warnings over rapid melting at Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’

Scientists have issued new warnings over a glacier in Antarctica that is described as "the doomsday glacier" because its collapse could lead to rapid sea-level rise.

Antarctica: Too big to melt
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Antarctica: Too big to melt

A summer of extremes leaves sobering questions about the state of Earth’s largest store of ice, capable of inundating coastlines worldwide as it melts.
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A huge iceberg just broke off Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier

A huge iceberg just broke off Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier

Huge blocks of ice regularly shear away from Antarctica’s ice shelves, but the losses are speeding up.
The new video of one of the scariest places on Earth
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The new video of one of the scariest places on Earth

For the first time, scientists have a clear view of the line where the giant Thwaites Glacier is leaking water into the ocean.
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West Antarctica is melting—and human-caused climate change is to blame

West Antarctica is melting—and human-caused climate change is to blame

The fingerprints of human-caused climate change have made it to Antarctica, a new study shows.

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