Why Antarctica's Collapsing Ice Cliffs Stop Falling
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists studied falling ice cliffs in Antarctica.
- A2
Scientists studied falling ice cliffs in Antarctica.
- B1
Using satellite data, researchers studied collapsing ice cliffs in Antarctica.
- B2
Using satellite data, researchers have found that collapsing ice cliffs in Antarctica do not necessarily trigger a runaway collapse of the ice sheet.
- C1
As rising temperatures cause the outer ice shelves of Antarctica to melt and break away at record rates, steep ice cliffs are left exposed.
- C2
As rising temperatures cause the outer ice shelves of Antarctica to melt and break away at record rates, steep ice cliffs are left exposed, and their stability could affect future global sea level rise.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- collapse
- to fall down suddenly because of a lack of strength or support
- measurement
- the size, length, or amount of something found by measuring
- stable
- firmly fixed and not likely to move, change, or fall
- settle
- to reach a calm or fixed state or shape after moving
- brief
- lasting only for a short time
- retreat
- a movement backwards away from a place or position
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.