Sudden Collapse: Antarctic Glacier Shattered Within a Few Weeks
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Under its miles of ice, Antarctica hides a turbulent terrain that scientists are barely beginning to map. But as technologies gradually reveal the secrets of the white continent, a glacier has come to attract the attention of the whole world. In just a few months,...
The Hektoria glacier in Antarctica is breaking at record speed, showing an accelerated thaw that will impact sea level and continental stability. This article analyzes the causes, implications and perspectives of this alarming phenomenon.
There is no record of anything like it since the Ice Age: almost half of the Hektoria glacier, east of Antarctica, collapsed in just two months, losing 8.2 kilometers of ice, according to a study collected this Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. This process of disintegration has occurred at a ten-speed [...] The Antarctic Glacier entry collapses at a speed not seen since the Ice Age was first published in INFOGATE.
A huge ice surface rose from the rock and plunged into the sea within a short time. The reason was a combination of special circumstances – but how rare such a thing is is unclear.
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