The Surprise Discovery of Antarctica's Massive Meltwater Network, and the Increasing Instability of its Largest Ice Shelf

The results of two new studies regarding Antarctic glaciers have been released, and the results of each shocked the researchers conducting them, including the first on-site survey of the Totten Ice Shelf, and the first large-scale survey of the Antarctic continent as a whole. Additionally, the results of the two studies do not paint an optimistic picture for the stability of our southern continent's glaciers.

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