Scientists researching in Antarctic fear the Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, could collapse quickly, triggering a dramatic rise in sea levels, according to reports in the New Zealand press.
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Scientists Worried As One Major Problem Could Be Putting Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf at RiskThe gushing spout of warm water could rapidly melt the Antarctic ice shelf and lead to rising sea levels sooner than we think.
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Scientists make concerning discovery deep below Antarctic ice shelf the size of France: 'We found that the whole shelf suddenly moves'For example, Antarctic sea ice that melted in the summer of ... "There is a worry that the Ross Ice Shelf will someday ...
The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 metres. Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated ...
Of particular importance was our measurement of the concentration of sea salt, represented by sodium ... to assess what happened to the Ross Ice Shelf in a similar way. To better quantify the ...
The lesser-known story of the Ross Sea party has been deemed "without ... Somewhere on the Ross Ice Shelf, the depots lie untouched, forever buried beneath decades of ice and snow.
While in the Ross Sea, Protector visited the Antarctic research ... the first person to reach the South Pole from the Ross Ice Shelf. Similarly, the British explorers, Captain Robert Scott and ...
A group of 20 scientists from New Zealand - and abroad - are about to head to the bottom of the world to study the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ross Sea.
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