A glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula has just broken speed records. In late 2022, Hektoria Glacier retreated about five miles (8 kilometers) in just two months, making it the fastest known modern collapse of any grounded Antarctic glacier.
Researchers traced the event to a simple setup beneath the ice. A flat seabed let the glacier become briefly buoyant, then break apart in large slabs. A new study reports the retreat peaked at roughly half a…
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