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3 Antarctic glaciers show rapidly accelerated ice loss from ocean warming
SAN FRANCISCO — Several Antarctic glaciers are undergoing dramatic acceleration and ice loss. Hektoria Glacier, the worst affected, has quadrupled its sliding speed and lost 25 kilometers of ice off its front in just 16 months, scientists say. The rapid retreat “is really unheard of,” says Mathieu Morlighem, a glaciologist at Dartmouth College who was…
COP28: Countries agree on how to fund climate ‘loss and damage’
A flooded street in Beledweyne, Somalia, in November Abuukar Mohamed Muhidin/Anadolu via Getty Images The world has agreed to key details of a loss and damage fund on the first day of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, allaying fears that the issue would unravel negotiations on other urgent issues at the…