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Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point,’ warning future sea level rise may be underestimated

CNN  —  The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way that scientific models used to project future sea level rise have not taken into account, suggesting current projections could be significantly underestimating the problem, according to a new study. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found that warm ocean water is seeping beneath the …

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World’s largest ice sheet crumbling faster than previously thought, satellite imagery shows

Los Angeles – Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world’s largest ice sheet over the past 25 years, a satellite analysis showed on Wednesday. The first-of-its-kind study, led by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles …

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