All scientist Erin Pettit could see when she looked at the satellite photos of the ice shelf in front of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica was the giant crack that stretched across most of the ...
A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead to 11 feet of sea-level rise, according to scientists who study Antarctica ...
After six years of probing, poking and sampling a Florida-sized chunk of ice in West Antarctica with submarines, satellites and drills, scientists with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration ...
OGDEN — The Ogden Raptors used four pitchers to throw a combined no-hitter and shut out the visiting Glacier Range Riders 8-0 on Thursday night at Lindquist Field. Mitchell Stone led the first ...
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname, the “Doomsday Glacier”, for its potential to flood coastlines around the world if it collapsed. It is already contributing about 4 percent of annual sea ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But is that kind of rapid collapse really as likely as feared? A new study of Thwaites Glacier's ...
The calving front of Thwaites' ice shelf. The blue area is light reflecting off ice below the water. James Yungel/NASA Icebridge Thwaites Glacier drains a huge area of Antarctica’s ice sheet – about ...
The new images of the melting underside of an ice shelf could help scientists better forecast how the continent is contributing to rising sea levels. By Raymond Zhong By sending sound waves into the ...
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New research documents the fastest-known large-scale breakage along an Antarctic ice shelf. A 6.5-mile crack formed in 2012 over 5-and-a-half minutes, showing that ice shelves can effectively shatter ...
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 ...
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