💧🌏 Greg CocksJun 19, 2025
Sustained Decrease In Inland East Antarctic Surface Mass Balance Between 2005 And 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01699-z <-- shared paper
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CelloMom On CarsJan 31, 2025

"Ice shelves like the Amery play an important role in holding back, or buttressing, the flow of ice from inland and upstream. Such buttressing can slow the discharge of glacial ice into the ocean, limiting contributions to sea level rise compared to unbuttressed ice areas. Thick, stable ice shelves perform this buttressing role most effectively. But when meltwater drains through fractures within the ice, it can weaken the ice shelf."

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153841/meltwater-ponds-on-the-amery-ice-shelf?linkId=732273318
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Meltwater Ponds on the Amery Ice Shelf

Blue puddles of water were visible atop this East Antarctic ice shelf after periods of record melting.

Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Aug 11, 2023

in the relatively short amount of time that’s left between now and 2030,” says Bransome.

The three proposed areas — in #EastAntarctic, the #WeddellSea and the #AntarcticPeninsula — would not just help krill but conserve habitat and protect biodiversity for a huge range of the region’s species.

“Adélie and chinstrap #penguins get almost all of their calories from krill,” says Bransome. “Other predators that would benefit include #CrabeaterSeals, #FurSeals, #GentooPenguins, and #whales,

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