{"id":7321,"date":"2025-12-11T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:22:26","slug":"warm-ocean-waters-increased-retreat-of-key-glacier-in-west-antarctica-by-undermining-ice-shelf-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/warm-ocean-waters-increased-retreat-of-key-glacier-in-west-antarctica-by-undermining-ice-shelf-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm Ocean Waters Increased Retreat of Key Glacier in West Antarctica by Undermining Ice Shelf Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nature Communications<\/em>, 21 October 2025<\/p>\n<p>Berry Glacier in West Antarctica has undergone dramatic retreat and thinning over the past three decades, driven by seawater intrusion beneath its ice shelf. This glacier feeds into the Getz Ice Shelf, which governs roughly 10% of the region\u2019s ice discharge. Between 1996 and 2021, Berry Glacier retreated 18 kilometers inland, and recorded the farthest extent of seawater penetrating beneath grounded ice ever recorded in Antarctica. In addition, the glacier&#8217;s flow speed increased by 64% during this period, as it lost over 130 gigatons of ice that flowed into the ocean. Warm deep waters circulating the continent infiltrated the subglacial cavity, increasing melt at its base and weakening the glacier\u2019s structural stability in a destructive feedback loop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-64330-0\">\u8bba\u6587\u5168\u6587<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/scienmag.com\/radar-reveals-seawater-driving-berry-glacier-retreat\/\">News Coverage<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Communications, 21 October 2025 Berry Glacier in West Antarctica has undergone dramatic retreat and thinning over the past three decades, driven by seawater intrusion beneath its ice shelf. This glacier feeds into the Getz Ice Shelf, which governs roughly 10% of the region\u2019s ice discharge. Between 1996 and 2021, Berry Glacier retreated 18 kilometers [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryosphere-capsules"],"modified_by":"Pam Pearson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7322,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions\/7322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}