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How a massive ice shelf buttressed the last ice age's glaciers—and what it could mean for Antarctica today

How a massive ice shelf buttressed the last ice age's glaciers—and what it could mean for Antarctica today

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Canada. The first report grouped here was at 21 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTC. The headline in use is “How a massive ice shelf buttressed the last ice age's glaciers—and what it could mean for Antarctica today”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.

What we know

About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile (1. 6 kilometers) thick helped lock in three of the largest ice sheets in northern Canada and Greenland.

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