One western glacier is melting so fast that scientists have nicknamed it the Doomsday Glacier, and an international effort is trying to figure out what’s happening to it.
, which brought research station thermometers to a whopping 38 degrees Celsius above normal temperatures. Hogg said that sea ice is at an all time low, a major cause for concern: In the Antarctic, the July average for sea ice extent fell below previous low set in 2022. And ice shelves, which can be the size of several large buildings, are also under threat as they melt and eventually collapse.
The topic of extremes “is with us more frequently and will be with us even more frequently in the future,” said Peter Schlosser, vice president and vice provost of the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University not involved with the research. Systems like Antarctica are extreme by nature, but that doesn’t mean they’re not vulnerable, he added — they’re highly susceptible to small changes.
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