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A marine-terminating glacier in Antarctica. New scientific findings show, again, that the climate crisis is taking its toll on Antarctica – a continent, up to recently, thought better able to withstand the immediate effects of rising global temperatures.
Using satellite data, scientists have discovered that the ice shelf extending into the ocean from Cadman Glacier on the west Antarctic Peninsula collapsed leaving the glacier exposed to unusually warm ocean water, which caused the glacier to retreat rapidly.
Read full story: Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat