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Faster ice melt in Antarctica could lead to more coastal flooding

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The Horton Glacier along Ryder Bay in Antarctica.

If you’ve ever built a sand castle on the beach, you’ve seen how seawater in the sand can quickly undermine the castle. A new study from the British Antarctic Survey concludes that warmer seawater may act in a similar way on the underside of ground-based ice sheets, causing them to melt faster than previously thought. … Read more

Doomsday Glacier’s ticking clock: Satellites reveal “powerful melt” beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

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A team led by glaciologists from UC Irvine used satellite radar data to reconstruct the impact of warm ocean water rising in a grounding zone extending several kilometers beneath the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The research, the subject of an article published in PNAS, will help climate modelers derive more accurate projections of sea … Read more