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Antarctica’s most vulnerable regions have reached an unstoppable melting phase long feared by scientists

Researchers reporting in Nature Climate Change conclude that several Antarctic ice drainage basins may already be committed ...
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West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...
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Creating a Detailed Map of Antarctica's Landscape Under the Ice

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...
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If Antarctica fully melts, some nations would vanish from the map

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries would simply cease to exist. Entire coastal megacities would be abandoned, new ...
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West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...
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West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Christine Siddoway received funding from the U.S. Science Support Program for IODP, and the National Science Foundation (grants 1939146 and 1917176, OPP Antarctic Earth Sciences) to support this ...