Hidden ocean heat is creeping toward Antarctica’s fragile ice shelves

ScienceDaily
Apr 30, 2026, 8:33 am10 pts
Deep beneath the Southern Ocean, a quiet but alarming shift is underway: warm water is creeping closer to Antarctica, and scientists are now seeing it clearly for the first time. By combining decades of ship data with robotic float measurements and machine learning, researchers uncovered that a massive pool of…

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