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How waves, ponds and green algae are accelerating sea ice melt in Antarctica
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New research describes how waves, meltwater ponds, and green algae accelerate the breakdown and melting of Antarctic sea ice, challenging the conventional image of pristine white ice floes.
How waves, ponds and green algae are accelerating sea ice melt in Antarctica
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Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, home to penguins in the south of the globe or polar bears in the north.
But our new research shows Antarctic sea ice can turn into rafts of rotting floes (the free-floating piec
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