It's called the Doomsday Glacier because of its potential to dramatically raise sea levels in places such as Florida, and it ...

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place. The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than ...

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For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

The plan centers around the “doomsday glacier,” or the Thwaites glacier, which could raise sea levels exponentially if it melts. The reason that the glacier is referred to as the doomsday ...

(THE CONVERSATION) This episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast is about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Thwaites is among the largest glaciers on Earth and one of the single most important ...

Nearly 100 scientists and support staff departed this week for the most ambitious mission to date for Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. In the second year of the International Thwaites Glacier ...

But it's possible that catastrophic ice-sheet collapse could happen in the foreseeable future, and the processes that could trigger it at the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica — one of the ...

The grounding line of the Thwaites Glacier moved almost 9 miles inland between 1992 and 2011, according to a 2014 study; the farther it shifts, the more likely it is that the glacier will destabilize.

The first-ever visit to the grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. The grounding line just behind it is an integral factor in the glacier's stability or lack thereof. It is tied to the ...