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Antarctica’s Fastest-Retreating Glacier Just Lost Nearly Half Its Ice In Two Months

The mind-blowing pace of retreat from the Hektoria Glacier is reminiscent of glacial retreats from the Ice Ages.

By Jennifer Gray • just now

Fastest Shrinking Glacier Since The Ice Ages

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier may be considered small, but the amount of ice it has lost in record time is a really big deal.

The glacier is about 115 square miles (or roughly the size of Philadelphia), and it lost nearly half its ice in just two months' time, equivalent to about 5 miles of ice between November 2022 and January 2023.

A new study, led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and published this week in Nature Geoscience , explains how this unprecedented collaps

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