By Ian Randall
Ice streams — a type of glacier — are fast-moving regions within ice sheets that can travel, under their own weight, up to some 3,300 feet each year. As geophysicist Chloe Gustafson of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in California explains, “ice streams are important because they funnel about 90 percent of Antarctica’s ice from […]
Antarctica breakthrough as reservoir found hiding beneath ice: ‘Transforms understanding’
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