The rate of Antarctic ice melt continues to surprise scientists. In an article published this Monday in Nature GeoscienceResearchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (United States) have found that in 2023 the Hektoria Glacier, located on the eastern coast of the Graham Peninsula—one of the fastest-warming areas of the Antarctic continent—receded at least 8 kilometers in just two months. Although this ice mass already experienced very rapid ice loss in the 2000s, the rate recorded by this team is the fastest in modern history. The acceleration of the melting was ten times more powerful than previous measurements, to the point that almost half of the glacier disintegrated in just a few weeks.