Over 16 months, it retreated by 25 kilometers, and it lost a whopping 8 kilometers in just two of those months—the fastest glacial retreat in the modern record. An antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications for. A glacier on antarctica's eastern peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50% of the glacier disintegrated. One glacier’s ‘out of this world’ retreat might have set a modern record Now, scientists pieced together what happened new research finds that hektoria, a grounded glacier in antarctica. A glacier on antarctica’s eastern peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated
A glacier on the eastern antarctic peninsula has just broken speed records In late 2022, hektoria glacier retreated about five miles (8 kilometers) in just two months, making it the fastest known modern collapse of any grounded antarctic glacier.
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