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Key ice shelf on Antarctica's doomsday glacier will probably shatter like a car windshield within 5 years, scientists say
Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier — a key source of sea-level rise — will melt much faster after losing…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists want to build 62-mile-long curtains around the 'doomsday glacier' for a $50 billion Hail Mary to save it
The Thwaites glacier is melting. Scientists will test underwater curtains to prevent the 'doomsday'…
Ellyn Lapointe
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There's another missing submersible: A $3.6 million vessel mysteriously disappeared near Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier'
There's another missing submersible: Scientists lost contact with a $3.6M sub revolutionizing clima…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Antarctica's Thwaites glacier is in peril, images reveal. The so-called 'doomsday glacier' could trigger 10 feet of sea-level rise if it melts.
This moth, two new studies have added detail to the alarming picture. Research published last week …
Susie Neilson
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Map shows the ice sheets and glaciers melting that scientists most fear will be the source of catastrophic rising sea levels
Sea levels are rising steadily each year due to global warming, but these glaciers and ice sheets m…
Marianne Guenot,Annie Fu
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'Doomsday' glacier which could raise sea levels by several feet if melted — is 'holding on by its fingernails' says new study
Using a new sea floor mapping technique, scientists found the Thwaites "Doomsday" glacier had retre…
Mia Jankowicz
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Time-lapse video shows the ice shelf of one of Antarctica's largest glaciers breaking into large chunks
Time-lapse footage of Pine Island Glacier between 2017 and 2020 shows its ice shelf breaking into l…
Sophia Ankel
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One of Antarctica's biggest glaciers will soon reach a point of irreversible melting. That would cause sea levels to rise at least 1.6 feet.
Every year, the portion of the Thwaites Glacier's floating ice shelf that extends into the sea gets…
Aylin Woodward
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The sea-level rise from Antarctica's melting ice sheet could be 30% higher than estimated due to an effect scientists previously thought was 'inconsequential,' new study says
The "water expulsion mechanism" means global sea-level rise over the next 1,000 years could be 3.3 …
Marianne Guenot
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Antarctica is melting so fast that scientists are proposing shooting artificial snow out of cannons to slow it down
Scientists like Levermann track what's known as the glaciers' grounding lines: the point at which c…
Aylin Woodward
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There's a cavity underneath Antarctica that's two thirds the size of Manhattan - a sign ice sheets are melting faster than we thought
Antarctica is ringed by a skirt of ice sheets and floating ice shelves that provide a buffer betwee…
Aylin Woodward
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Sea levels are projected to rise 3 feet within 80 years, according to a new UN report. Hundreds of millions of people could be displaced.
Specifically, sections of the Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica are retreating by up to 2,625 …
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists think a giant artificial wall propped up under Antarctica's ice sheets could stop catastrophic sea level rise
The project is still theoretical. This sort of "ice sheet intervention today would be at the edge o…
Kevin Loria
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Deep below the ocean's surface, water is eating away one of the world's largest blocks of ice
That leaves Smith Glacier the tip of the spear of Antarctic glacial ice loss in the Amundsen Sea, o…
Rafi Letzter
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The Collapse Of The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Now Unstoppable - Here's What That Will Do To The World
8) These numbers also do not take into account sea level rise from non-ice sources like ocean therm…
Leslie Baehr
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What’s wrong with Antarctica? NASA says it’s gaining more ice than losing
If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is n…