June 13, 2022
- https://newatlas.com/environment/rising-beaches-antarctic-glaciers-melting/
Thwaites glacier, pictured here, is almost the size of Great Britain
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According to a new study, two of the main glaciers that make up the Antarctic ice sheet are now melting faster than they have over the past 5,500 years. Ironically, the conclusion is based on how sea levels have seeminglydroppedin the region over time.
The study was conducted by scientists from the University of Maine and the British Antarctic Survey.
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It involved the radiocarbon-dating of seashells and penguin bones found in what were at one time beaches near the present-day Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers. Given the rate at which the two glaciers are presently melting…
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