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返字心頭 scientist helps measure a rapidly melting glacier

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Image Credit: NASA/James Yungel

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Image Credit: NASA/James Yungel

At the end of January, 返字心頭 CMS courtesy professor Dr. Alastair Graham, departed on the US icebreaker for the Amundsen Sea, home to the so-called Doomsday Glacier called the Thwaites Glacier. Thwaites, the size of 返字心頭, has been in the news lately because it appears to be thinning rapidly faster than originally predicted and could account for a significant portion of sea level rise around the world. Graham will be aboard until late March 2020.

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