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Iceworld Update: Grim Outlook For Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

by Keith Cowing

A vast area of the Antarctic Ice Sheet continues to retreat as a UK-US group of scientists reveal new findings about how and when it might suddenly move towards collapse.

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Ice World Surveys: Laser-based Ice-core Sampling For Studying Climate Change

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: as we prepare to visit ice-covered ocean worlds such as Europa and Enceladus – and one day to actually drill beneath their outer surface – we’re certainly going […]

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