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‘Doomsday Glacier’ Explained: Why Scientists Believe It Predicts Devastating Sea Levels—Which Might Happen Faster Than Thought

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The Florida-sized glacier is the world’s widest, and is Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier mainly because the land it sits on slopes down, allowing warm ocean water to easily wear it down over time.the glacier started rapidly retreating in the 1940s, most likely due to a strong El Niño event, and the glacier has been unable to recover since, possibly due to the increasing impact of human-caused climate change.published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

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