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Argentina’s Once Stable Perito Moreno Glacier Is Now Melting Fast
LAGO ARGENTINO DEPARTMENT, SANTA CRUZ PROVINCE, ARGENTINA, AUG 10 – The glacier's retreat reflects delayed climate change effects and may continue for several more kilometres, scientists warn in new research on one of the few previously stable glaciers.
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Glacier once thought stable in Argentina is now rapidly thinning
Once seen as immune to climate-driven ice loss, Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier has been shrinking faster since 2019, raising fears of irreversible retreat.Raymond Zhong reports for The New York Times.In short:Researchers found that Perito Moreno’s protective bedrock ridge could soon fail to anchor the glacier, increasing the risk of ice detachment and faster melt.Satellite data show the glacier’s thinning rate has sharply accelerated since 20…
A scientific study warns of the accelerated process by which the Perito Moreno glacier is receding in the last 5 years and the loss of glacial mass that is evidenced in the studies carried out with satellite images. The report of a group of Argentine, German and other scientists was published in the scientific journal Communications Earth & Environment where with information recorded in the ice field and satellite images the “retrocess” of the m…
An iconic Argentinian glacier, long thought, one of the few on Earth to be relatively stable, is now undergoing its "most substantial retreat in the last century", according to new research. Perito Moreno's glacier in the Southern Patagonia ice field for decades is safely stuck in [...]
A new study points to dramatic changes that have occurred in the famous glacier in southern Argentina over the past five years, describing its retreat as the most significant in the past century. Estimate: It will retreat several kilometers in the coming years
The Perito Moreno Glacier, in Santa Cruz, Argentina, was for decades the exception of those large masses of ice on the planet that melted and disappeared within the vastness of the oceans. Although its forehead advanced and receded slightly, it did so without drastic changes for glaciological parameters. Meanwhile, on the surface it showed only signs of thinning and, even, it was estimated that in some sectors it might have become thicker. Howev…
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