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Warming seas are carving into massive Antarctic glacier that could trigger sea level rise

Por: The Boston Globe Nation February 16, 2023

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Rapidly warming oceans are cutting into the underside of the Earth’s widest glacier and posing a major sea-level-rise threat, startling new data and images show.Using an underwater robot at Thwaites Glacier, researchers have determined that warm water is getting channeled into crevasses in what the researchers called ‘’terraces’' — essentially, upside-down trenches — and carving out gaps under the ice. As the ice then flows... + full article



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