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Glacier Erasure

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GSDime Mipaska: I saw a headline startling new footage of a key glacier. The Washington Post reports that the West Antarctic behemoth is out of balance, meaning it is getting thinner and losing more ice to the ocean than is being replaced by the flow from inland parts of Antarctica. Hot water on a glacier? That doesn't seem very nice. But they needed to do this to get their special camera in there. This is live from PS5.

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