Ice sheets could retreat faster than expected: study

Paris (AFP) April 6, 2023

Antarctic ice-sheets risk breaking into the sea faster than previously thought in stretches of up to 600 metres a day, speeding up the rise in sea levels, new research indicates.

In a paper published Wednesday in science journal Nature, researchers studied traces left by retreating ice-shelves thousands of years ago on the seabed off Norway.

Ridges revealed how quickly the “grounding lin
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