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Richard Selwyn Jones, Research Fellow, Monash University

We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future

Richard Selwyn Jones, Author provided

Alarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing and glaciers are flowing faster into the ocean.

Antarctica will be the largest source of future sea-level rise. Yet scientists don’t know exactly how this melting will unfold as the climate warms.

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