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- Initialism of East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
- 2022 August 10, Damian Carrington, “Fate of ‘sleeping giant’ East Antarctic ice sheet ‘in our hands’ – study”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- The EAIS is far larger than the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), which hosts the so-called “doomsday” Thwaites glacier, which has lost significant stability. Total loss of the WAIS would cause 5 metres of sea level rise.