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What happens in the Antarctic doesn't stay in the Antarctic, ice-sheet modeller says

France24 21 Aug 2025
Speaking on FRANCE 24, glaciologist and ice-sheet modeller Frank Pattyn, Chair of the ...
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Fibre optics detect the invisible waves that melt Greenland’s ice sheet

Swissinfo 20 Aug 2025
The breaking off of large chunks of ice from glaciers accelerates the melting of the Arctic ice sheet in Greenland ... Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at an increasingly rapid pace ... Arctic ice sheet.
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Scientist warn West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse | Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail 20 Aug 2025
But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is on the verge of a 'catastrophic' collapse, scientists have warned ... If it did collapse, experts predict the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise sea levels by more than 9.8ft (three meters).
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet is on the verge of a 'catastrophic' COLLAPSE - sparking 9.8ft ...

The Daily Mail 20 Aug 2025
But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is on the verge of a 'catastrophic' collapse, scientists have warned ... If it did collapse, experts predict the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise sea levels by more than 9.8ft (three metres).
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I'm an adventure junkie — this hike to Greenland’s ice sheet pushed me to my limits

London Evening Standard 17 Aug 2025
This Arctic expedition to the end of the earth takes months of training and could be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, or the first of many extreme trails. So could Samantha Herbert hack it? ... .
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CO2 spike hastens melting of West Antarctic ice sheet, lethal sea surge looms, shows study by Goa-based NCPOR

The Times of India 10 Aug 2025
... the west Antarctic ice sheet is already undergoing rapid and potentially irreversible melting.The west Antarctic ice sheet contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by over three to five metres.
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Scientists Alarmed as Floodwater Punches Through Greenland's Ice Sheet

Futurism 03 Aug 2025
The event also defies our predictions of how the Greenland ice sheet evolves over time, even when taking climate change and the accelerating melting of ice sheets into consideration.
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Satellites reveal a hidden lake burst through Greenland Ice Sheet in 2014, causing major flooding ...

Space 31 Jul 2025
A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites ....
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Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface

European Space Agency 30 Jul 2025
... in a vast quantity of meltwater bursting through the ice surface.
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Huge crater discovered in Greenland ice sheet

Qatar Tribune 30 Jul 2025
DPACologneA massive flood that ...
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Huge hidden flood bursts through the Greenland ice sheet surface (Lancaster University)

Public Technologies 30 Jul 2025
"The existence of subglacial lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is still a relatively recent discovery, and - as our study shows - there is still much we don't know about how they evolve and how they can impact on the ice sheet system.
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Ancient river landscapes under Antarctica may stabilize ice sheet

The Spokesman-Review 28 Jul 2025
The team used radio echo sounding, a technique that measures ice thickness using radar, to study the East Antarctic Ice Sheet between Princess Elizabeth Land and George V Land in Antarctica.
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