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1. Warm water melts 'Doomsday Glacier' half a mile each year, finds study  Interesting Engineering
2. 'Vigorous melting' at Antarctica's Thwaites 'Doomsday' Glacier  Science Daily
3. 'Doomsday Glacier' in Antarctica is melting 'much faster' than previously thought, scientists warn  Daily Mail
4. Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the 'Doomsday Glacier' with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise  Yahoo! Voices
5. This 'doomsday' glacier is more vulnerable than scientists... Читать дальше...

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