Antarctica Glacier's Retreat 'Unprecedented'
When you purchase through link on our site , we may earn an affiliate delegacy . Here ’s how it works . Like a plug in a talebearing dam , little Pine Island Glacier holds back part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet , whose thinning ice is bestow to sea level rise . In late decades , Pine Island Glacier’srapid retirement raised fearfulness that the glacier could " break down , " freeing the ice bed sheet it fender to flow even more speedily into the southern seas ....