A study published in NatureClimate suggests that warming temperatures in Antarctica are causing meteorites to sink more quickly into the ice, leading to the potential loss of up to 75% of the continent's meteorites by the end of the century. This phenomenon could make thousands of meteorites inaccessible each year, impacting research on extraterrestrial material.
Thousands of hidden meteorites could be lost forever as they sink in Antarctic ice, taking their cosmic secrets with them https://t.co/ZpwHsS19JS https://t.co/lOqxi0twSe
What do meteorites have to do with climate change? @VeroTollenaar, @HarryZeko et al show that ~5,000 meteorties become inaccessible per year as they melt into the Antarctic due to climate change https://t.co/bJAtAcyV5R https://t.co/SWVeWDTTEF
Roughly 60% of all known meteorites have been collected in Antarctica. But, as temperatures rise, thousands of meteorites will sink into the continent’s ice and disappear from sight every year before researchers can collect them, a new study found. https://t.co/riCwirKmB0
Meteorites Are Vanishing Into Antarctica's Soft Ice As The World Warms https://t.co/USlZrd39Hi
Antarctica's #Meteorites are vanishing due to #ClimateChange. According to a new study in @NatureClimate, up to 75% of Antarctica's meteorites could be lost by the end of the century due to glacial melt. @ETH @ETH_en https://t.co/JyzW4fmJed
Imagine a submerged world, untouched for millennia. Deep beneath, within Mexico's Hoyo Negro cave, ancient fossils tell stories of our distant past. Now, cutting-edge technology is bringing its secrets to light. https://t.co/St7BefjfX6 https://t.co/yAAfx4IOdW
Thousands of meteorites could sink more quickly into Antarctic ice as a result of warming temperatures, accelerating the inaccessibility of many of these samples of extraterrestrial material, suggests a study published in @NatureClimate. https://t.co/mxANIjEudz https://t.co/LON0GXSiPu
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