Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can “switch very rapidly” and lose large quantities of ice as a result of warmer seas.
Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can “switch very rapidly” and lose large quantities of ice as a result of warmer seas.
Their finding comes after a research team led by Benjamin Wallis, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds, used satellites to track the Cadman Glacier, which drains into Beascochea Bay, on the west Antarctic peninsula.
Between November 2018 and May 2021, the glacier retreated eight kilometres as the ice shelf at the end of the glacier - where ice extends out into the sea and is anchored onto the sea floor at what is known as the grounding zone - disappeared.
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