Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay

ENN
Feb 1, 2019, 4:27 pm93 pts
A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall — growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several disturbing discoveries reported in a new NASA-led study of the disintegrating glacier.

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