Antarctic Glacier Accused of “Ice Piracy”

When width from space, a very rude ice river was arrested on the Antarctica, stealing the ice from its neighbor while melting.

In a new study published in the magazine CryingResearchers from the University of Leeds in England found that an iceberg in the west of Antarctica has been involved in “ice piracy”, and is mainly affected while its neighbors are thin due to melting.

Using the satellite images taken between 2005 and 2022, the environmental researchers were surprised that although three of the ice rivers – Kuller East, Bob, and Samith – have begun to upgrade 51 percent faster annually, their neighbor, Coller West, has already slowed ten percent.

According to Heather Selly, a PhD researcher in Leeds, he was the main author of the paper, these different mitigation speeds appear to have severe consequences.

“We believe that the noticeable slowdown on Kuller West ice is due to the redoubling of the ice flow towards its neighbor – Coller East,” she said in a press release. “This is due to the great change in the Kohler West surface slope, most likely caused by different mitigation rates to the adjacent ice rivers. Since the Kohler East ice stream flows and reduces faster while traveling, it absorbs, or steals the ice from Kohler West.”

Like a child who mocks the water from their friend’s bucket to his own, “ice piracy” includes ice “to” redirect it from ice to another, and the accelerated ice rivers are “ice” from his lined neighbor.

Although this phenomenon is not unknown to environmental scientists, it took hundreds or even thousands of years. Selly said that noting that this was happening only 18 years old was “great”, but it was also worrying.

Antarctica, where this ice piracy occurred, as the European Space Agency, known as “the highest registered thinning rates.”

The higher these ice flowers, the higher the sea levels, which can have severe consequences around the world. While scientists are well aware of the risk of continuously increasing ice retreat, this rapid effect of rapid ice has cast a curved ball in their knowledge.

Our results show that there is essentially [melting] Celley said that the speedy in this area of ​​the Antarctic continent, which has the highest registered rates of mitigation. Both are major indicators for the stability of the ice cover and therefore have effects on the change in the sea level in the future. “

It is unlikely to change the theft of ice, this rate that melts in the world’s ice rivers in the ocean and raising sea levels with it. But it is still an unexpected result of climate change, which science has not yet seen.

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