A massive glacier up to 80 miles long in East Antarctica is shrinking at an alarming rate, but the record-setting landscape beneath it could speed up its demise even more.
The Denman Glacier has retreated three miles over a 22-year period, and researchers are concerned this could be just the beginning of a total meltdown that would cause global sea levels to rise a whopping five feet (1.5 m).4
Forbes
How The World’s Deepest Point On Land Could Raise Global Sea Levels
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