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Giant Antarctic ice shelves facing fracture risk: study

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Sudden loss of these supportive structures could rapidly accelerate the flow of ice into the ocean, raising sea levels by as much as 1m around the world by 2100.

LONDON - A platform of ice surrounding Antarctica measuring more than 350,000 square miles is at risk of collapse as the effects of climate change threaten to destabilise it, a new study has shown.

Ice shelves float on the ocean but are fastened to land and act as stoppers that prevent Antarctic ice sheets, that are as big as the United States and Mexico combined, from sliding into the sea. It is a process where meltwater repeatedly refreezes and thaws again, enlarging fractures in those sections of ice and putting them at risk of collapse.

 

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