Antarctica’s Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster — And From Beneath

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October 25th, 2016

This image taken in 2012 shows part of the Crosson Ice Shelf (center left) and Mount Murphy (foreground) in western Antarctica. Thwaites Ice Shelf lies beyond the highly fractured expanse of ice (center).

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