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Swansea University

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Caption

Looking out from Hektoria’s retreating terminus toward the bay and the Weddell Sea, where icebergs now drift—fragments of a glacier that collapsed at unprecedented speed—26 February 2024.

Credit

Naomi Ochwat, lead author of the study and Post-Doctoral Associate at CU Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).

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