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The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away

Science | 2026-05-18 at 10:00 UTC | Source: www.newscientist.com
The floating ice shelf of world’s widest glacier – Thwaites glacier in Antarctica – is detaching, with worrying implications for global sea-level rise
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