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Western region of the antarctic, it is an area called the monzon see —— amundsen sea, and it is melting rapidly, all the glaciers in that area. this is a particularly big one. thwaites is the size of great britain or florida, if you can imagine a glacier that big. it is speeding up, it is something evermore ice into the ocean, so it is a keystone glacier, it is a glacier scientists are watching because they are worried about the future. if antarctica puts more and more ice into the ocean it ...

Its a glacier scientists are watching because they are worried about the future. if antarctica puts more and more ice into the ocean it will raise sea levels, so this is one of the glaciers they are watching, because it is so big and because it is moving so fast. they have been throwing everything at it, these last few years. they are in the middle of a big research programme, the us and the united kingdom, they are putting people on the ice, they are studying it every day with satellites. they ...