Widespread seawater intrusions found beneath the grounded ice of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica. This makes the glacier more vulnerable to melting from a warmer ocean than anticipated, which in turn will increase projections of ice mass loss. Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2404766121#executive-summary-abstract
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