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Scientists alarmed to discover warm water at "vital point" beneath Antarctica's "doomsday glacier"

#Antarctica, #ThwaitesGlacier #MeltingIce #WarmWater #Scientists  By Sophie Lewis Scientists have found warm water beneath Antarctica's "doomsday glacier," a nickname used because it is one of Antarctica's fastest melting glaciers. While researchers have observed the recession of the Thwaites Glacier for a decade, this marks the first time they detected the presence of warm water – found at a "vital point" beneath the glacier. A news release on the findings called it an alarming discovery. "The fact that such warm water was just now recorded by our team along a section of Thwaites grounding zone where we have known the glacier is melting suggests that it may be undergoing an unstoppable retreat that has huge implications for global sea-level rise," David Holland, director of New York University's Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Global Sea Level Change, which conducted the research,  said i