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  1. Warm water melts ‘#DoomsdayGlacier’ half a mile every year, finds study
    #Thwaites is said to be the most unstable place in the #Antarctic and contains the equivalent of 60 centimeters of #sealevelrise
    Warm, high-pressure #seawater causing significant melting under Thwaites #Glacier in #Antarctica. "There are places where the water is almost at the pressure of the overlying ice, so just a little more pressure is needed to push up the ice," said lead author Eric Rignot, PhD
    interestingengineering.com/sci