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Enormous Antarctic lake disappears in three days, dumps 26 billion cubic feet water into ocean

08/07/2021 04:21 PM | Click to read full article

A massive ice-covered lake in Antarctica vanished within days, raising alarm bells in the scientific community over the dangerous trends of climate change and global warming.

Scientists believe that an estimated 21 billion to 26 billion cubic feet of water that drained into the ocean could raise sea levels. The lake vanished within three days after the ice shelf underneath collapsed.

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