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West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable


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Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica

Thwaites Glacier.

Credit: NASA

A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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