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Beneath the Ice: The Silent Surge Threatening the “Doomsday Glacier”


Satellite data provides the first evidence of warm ocean water intrusion beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier. For the first time, visible evidence has been captured showing warm seawater pumping beneath Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, known as the Doomsday Glacier. It earned this ominous nicknam

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