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Could the drilling sector mitigate rising sea levels?

Can technology from the oil & gas sector be used on icebergs to slow rising sea levels?

 Scientists have explored the idea of pumping through the ice sheets of Antarctica to dry the base of fast-flowing ice streams to slow their flow into the sea

Scientists have explored the idea of pumping through the ice sheets of Antarctica to dry the base of fast-flowing ice streams to slow their flow into the sea

Recently, Kim Stanley Robinson, a Bloomberg columnist, enthusiastically supported the idea of slowing down the slide of the planet's big glaciers', by drilling through the ice sheet and pumping out the...

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