In a new study, we found that a third of Antarctica’s ice shelves could collapse at 4°C of global warming.
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Since 1995, several ice shelves off the Antarctic Peninsula have abruptly disintegrated. A new analysis suggests that these events are triggered when ice shelves lose their buffer of floating ice.
Melting ice from Antartica could feed vast plankton blooms, trapping carbon in the ocean. To understand this complex mechanism, researchers looked at volcanoes deep under glaciers.
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Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Life Sciences , University of Newcastle
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Otago
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Professor of Applied Mathematics, The University of Melbourne
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Leader, Sea Ice Section, Antarctic Climate Program, Australian Antarctic Division
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Climate Scientist, British Antarctic Survey