A massive slab of floating ice that juts from Antarctica’s west coast could be in hot water soon. Warm ocean currents threaten to sneak up from below and torpedo the ice in coming decades, researchers report in the May 10 Nature.
Warm ocean currents may threaten the stability of Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea if global temperatures continue to rise.
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