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Antarctic Ice Loss Is Significant, Contrary to Claims factcheck.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from factcheck.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The research project, dubbed SWAIS 2C, will investigate the sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to global warming of 2 degrees Centigrade. ....
In Antarctica, a lake's disappearance might offer clues about melting ice shelves washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hydro-fracture occurs when liquid water, denser than ice, exerts sufficient extra pressure on cracks in ice shelves to open them right through to the ocean below. Scientists in Australia and the United States are reporting the sudden loss of a large ice-covered Antarctic lake covering an area of eleven square kilometres. The rare event occurred during the winter of 2019 on Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica and was noticed in satellite images the following summer by Dr Roland Warner from the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership at the University of Tasmania. Dr Warner said that the event, detailed in a paper just published in Geophysical Research Letters, was most likely caused by a process known as ‘hydro-fracturing’. ....