Warmer Summers and Meltwater Lakes Are Threatening the Fringes of the World’s Largest Ice Sheet

A study, published in Nature Communications with co-authors from Newcastle and Lancaster universities and the Georgia Institute of Technology, shows that lake volume varied year-to-year by as much as 200% on individual ice shelves (floating extensions of the main Antarctic ice sheet), and by around 72% overall.

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Meltwater lake on the Sørsdal Glacier
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