An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented retreat of Greenland's outlet glaciers and longer surface melt seasons.

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An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica’s ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call “Greenlandification.” The term refers to the unprecedented retreat of Greenland’s outlet glaciers and longer surface melt seasons.

Like Antarctica, Greenland was originally expected to remain more stable despite climate change. However, recent Antarctic research contradicts this claim, showing rapidly increasing surface melt, shrinking sea ice, and higher rates of iceberg calving from ice shelves

well… faster than expected