Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:20:12 +0000
New research suggests fears about a series of cascading failures in the Thwaites glacier are overblown. But that is not the end of the story.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:52:12 +0000
A massive Antarctic glacier is less stable and could potentially cause more and more rapid sea level rise than previously predicted, a study published Monday in Nature Geoscience finds. The Thwaites Glacier, known as the “doomsday glacier” because it holds enough water to raise global sea levels by multiple feet, is especially susceptible to rising […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 19:20:19 +0000
A team of researchers from the US and the UK are camped on the Thwaites Glacier in a remote part of Antarctica where they will attempt to drill through 600 meters of ice to insert a torpedo shaped drone into the waters below.