"The overall acceleration of pinning-point loss is striking and paints a bleak future for many Antarctic ice shelves. From 2000 to 2022, the vast majority of pinning points in the 3,000-km stretch of coastline in West Antarctica from George VI Ice Shelf to Hull Glacier, along with an 800-km stretch of coastline in Wilkes Land, reduced in area or completely disappeared."

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