building a different kind of wall

alaska mountain landscape with glacier in foreground

we will need innovative thinking to keep beautiful glaciers like this one around. (ashley gallagher/george washington university)

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a team of engineers might have an idea to slow rising seas and collapsing ice sheets. they have proposed building a giant wall in the sea to support some of the most vulnerable ice sheets in antarctica. this could be the largest civil engineering project ever attempted. it’d be a huge undertaking… but we’re on thin ice. 

build the (ice) wall

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