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Ice core samples show West Antarctic ice sheet survived the last interglacial event
More information: Eric W. Wolff et al, The Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08394-w Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last ...
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Scientists Worried As One Major Problem Could Be Putting Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf at Risk
Bordering the southern Weddell Sea, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) is Antarctica’s largest ice shelf after the Ross Ice Shelf. Its cold, dense, and salty waters gush upstream into the ...