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Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers are losing ice faster than any other time in the last 5,500 years. That history is written in bones and shells.

A new modeling study of the Antarctic ice sheet suggests that water beneath glaciers melting and flowing out to sea causes ice to melt faster

Narrow stripes of dirt and rock beneath massive Antarctic glaciers create friction zones that slow the flow of ice toward the sea, researchers at Princeton...