The Safety Net Is Snapping: Satellites Reveal Accelerating Decay of “Doomsday Glacier”

A new study led by scientists at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Earth Observation Science offers the most comprehensive account to date of how the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf in West Antarctica has steadily broken apart over the last twenty years. Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, often referred to as the “Doomsday Glacier,” is [...]

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