An international team of scientists found weak, biologically-rich layers of sediments hundreds of metres beneath the seafloor which crumbled as oceans warmed and ice sheets declined. The landslides were discovered in the eastern Ross Sea in 2017, by an international team of scientists during the Italian ODYSSEA expedition, and scientists revisited the area in 2018 as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 374 where they collected sediment cores to understand what caused them.
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Scientists have identified weak, biologically-rich sediments beneath Antarctica's seafloor as the cause of giant underwater landslides that could generate far-reaching tsunamis. These sediments formed in warmer periods and, with current climate change trends, similar events may occur again, possibly