New threat to Antarctic ice shelf emerges

Deutsche Welle: German researchers have found evidence that areas in Antarctica, previously thought relatively safe from the direct influence of climate change, are melting rapidly. An Antarctic area previously thought stable is at risk of melting rapidly within the next century, new research suggests. In a study published earlier this month, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany says the now-intact Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in the peripheral Weddell...

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