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Scientists find Doomsday Glacier is melting ‘more aggressively’ than thought, with big impacts for sea level rise

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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates, according to new research by a team of glaciologists.

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  1. Phys

    Thwaites Glacier could contribute twice as much sea-level rise as previously projected (opens Phys)

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    A new ice sheet model developed by glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory projects that the melting of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica will contribute up to 30 millimeters (1.

  2. Gizmodo

    Ocean Water Is Seeping Under the Doomsday Glacier—and Its Sea-Level Threat Just Doubled (opens Gizmodo)

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    A new model suggests the Thwaites Glacier could contribute twice as much sea-level rise.

  3. KRDO

    Scientists find Doomsday Glacier is melting ‘more aggressively’ than thought, with big impacts for sea level rise (opens KRDO)

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    By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates, according to new research by a team of glaciologists.

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