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Ice Apocalypse | Grist Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Ice Apocalypse | Grist
Ice Apocalypse | Grist
Nov 21, 2017
Extracted Page: http://grist.org/article/antarctica-doomsday-glaciers-could-flood-coastal-cities/
In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage.
Stretching across a frozen plain more than 150 miles long, these glaciers, named Pine Island and Thwaites, have marched steadily for millennia toward the Amundsen Sea, part of the vast Southern Ocean. Further inland, the glaciers widen into a two-mile-thick reserve of ice covering an area the size of Texas.
There’s no doubt this ice will melt as the world warms. The vital question is when.
The glaciers of Pine Island Bay are two of the largest and fastest-melti
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