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Doomsday Glacier: Scientists looked deep beneath Antarctic ice. What they found could spell disaster
3 months ago

Doomsday Glacier: Scientists looked deep beneath Antarctic ice. What they found could spell disaster

CNN  

CNN — Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise. Since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites — often dubbed the “Doomsday Glacier” …

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Elizabeth Rush on her epic journey to Earth's 'doomsday glacier'
1 year, 4 months ago

Elizabeth Rush on her epic journey to Earth's 'doomsday glacier'

BBC  

Elizabeth Rush on her epic journey to Earth's 'doomsday glacier' Elizabeth Rush Elizabeth Rush on her epic journey to Earth's 'doomsday glacier' In her latest book, The Quickening, the Pulitzer Prize finalist embarked on an epic odyssey to one of the most important – and least-explored – places in the world. Elizabeth Rush The calving edge of Thwaites Glacier had …

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‘Doomsday’ glacier is melting in Antarctica, and it’s bad news
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Doomsday’ glacier is melting in Antarctica, and it’s bad news

Live Mint  

New surveys have revealed that Thwaites Glacier, which is also known as the "doomsday glacier", is on the verge of collapse. The collapse of the glacier, which is around the size of Gujarat, could lead to a catastrophic rise in global sea levels, without any contribution from Greenland or the Himalayas. The real concern is that Thwaites Glacier acts as …

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Antarctica's 'Doomsday glacier' rapidly melting: What study means for the world
2 years, 3 months ago

Antarctica's 'Doomsday glacier' rapidly melting: What study means for the world

Hindustan Times  

Antarctica's Thwaites glacier is melting at a faster rate than previously expected, scientists said in a new study, published in Nature Geoscience. Antarctica's Thwaites glacier: Antarctica's Thwaites glacier melting could severely raise global sea levels. Antarctica's Thwaites glacier is melting "twice the rate observed by satellite at the fastest retreating part of the grounding zone between 2011 and 2019," scientists …

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Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier is 'holding on by its fingernails'
2 years, 3 months ago

Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier is 'holding on by its fingernails'

Daily Mail  

Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is 'holding on by its fingernails', experts say, after discovering that it has retreated twice as fast as previously thought over the past 200 years. Worrying times: Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is 'holding on by its fingernails', experts say, after discovering it has retreated twice as fast as previously thought over the past 200 years For the first …

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Seafloor images shed new light on Thwaites Glacier retreat
2 years, 3 months ago

Seafloor images shed new light on Thwaites Glacier retreat

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Robert Larter, British Antarctic Survey However, the study indicates the glacier could see big changes over small timescales in …

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Giant iceberg blocks scientists’ study of ‘Doomsday Glacier’
2 years, 10 months ago

Giant iceberg blocks scientists’ study of ‘Doomsday Glacier’

Associated Press  

Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is. A large iceberg broke off the deteriorating Thwaites glacier and, along with sea ice, it is blocking two research ships with dozens of scientists from examining how fast its crucial ice shelf is falling …

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Why Antarctica's 'Doomsday' glacier could lead to catastrophic sea-level rise? Scientists to study its past, future
2 years, 11 months ago

Why Antarctica's 'Doomsday' glacier could lead to catastrophic sea-level rise? Scientists to study its past, future

India Today  

Nearly a month after reports indicated a fatal loss of the Thwaites glaciers in the next three to five years, a team of scientists have left to study this freezing world. A team of 32 international scientists are starting a more than two-month mission aboard an American research ship to investigate the crucial area where the massive, but melting, Thwaites …

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Ice shelf on Antarctic's doomsday glacier is CRACKING and is likely to break free within five years
3 years ago

Ice shelf on Antarctic's doomsday glacier is CRACKING and is likely to break free within five years

Daily Mail  

The front portion of the doomsday glacier in Antarctica has an 'alarming crack' that could lead to it breaking off in just five years. New data, released on Monday, shows warming oceans is causing the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf to lose its grip on the submarine shoal, or bank, that acts as a pinning point to hold it to the …

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Two Antarctic glaciers are breaking up and it could have major consequences for sea level rise
4 years, 3 months ago

Two Antarctic glaciers are breaking up and it could have major consequences for sea level rise

CNN  

CNN — Satellite images show that two important glaciers in the Antarctic are sustaining rapid damage at their most vulnerable points, leading to the breaking up of vital ice shelves with major consequences for global sea level rise. Here you see a @NASA_Landsat 🛰️ time lapse of @AntarcticPIG showing how the shear margin is tearing apart pic.twitter.com/u7vRfFxcOH — Stef Lhermitte …

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