Thwaites Glacier drains a huge area of Antarctica's ice sheet—about 74,000 square miles (192,000 square kilometers), an expanse bigger than Florida.

It’s the world’s most vulnerable glacier, key to the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Yet we’re only now getting to know Thwaites.

According to their faint pencil marks, we are currently on top of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue. Back in 1991, when the chart was printed, ... “It was pretty smooth, a solid wall of ice.

Much of this loss stems from the melting and retreat of the glacier’s grounding line, where its outer wall rests on the seafloor. As Thwaites’ grounding line recedes, it reduces friction at ...

Thwaites Glacier drains a huge area of Antarctica’s ice sheet — about 74,000 square miles (192,000 square kilometers), an expanse bigger than Florida.

The Thwaites Glacier, aka the "doomsday glacier," has lost more than a trillion tons of ice since 2000. If the Thwaites collapsed entirely, global sea levels could rise by about 10 feet.

The Thwaites “doomsday” glacier is eroding along its underwater base. Scientists now say it has the capability of retreating much faster than it has in the past decade.

The Thwaites Glacier is about 1,000 miles from the nearest land-based Antarctic research stations, and the harsh conditions and short research season make it an “incredibly difficult place to ...

Thwaites Glacier as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, November 26, 2020. Courtesy of the European Space Agency This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science ...

Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica has been called the "Doomsday Glacier." That's because — were it to disintegrate — Thwaites, roughly the size of Florida, could cause catastrophic sea level rise.

That can destabilize the wall of ice behind the shelf, causing the glacier to rapidly retreat. Because Thwaites contains so much ice, and such a large potential to affect global sea levels ...