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How a massive ice shelf buttressed the last ice age's glaciers—and what it could mean for Antarctica today
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PUBLISHEDOct 21, 2026, 2:20 PM
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About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) thick helped lock in three of the largest ice sheets in northern Canada and Greenland. When that ice shelf ...
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