Several major U.S. cities could be impacted if the Thwaites Glacier were to melt, according to NOAA projections.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden force behind the rapid melting of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—powerful wind jets known ...

Thwaites Glacier plays a crucial role in the Antarctic ice sheet ... Warm ocean currents are thinning the ice shelves from below, making the glaciers more vulnerable to collapse. Aerial view of ...

As Totten Glacier oozes off the Antarctic coast and ... but also the crushing pressure of the ice overhead, says Anna-Mireilla Hayden, a Ph.D. student in glacial hydrology who is on Dow’s ...

A vast area of the Antarctic Ice Sheet – Thwaites Glacier – continues to retreat and much of it could be lost by the 23rd century, experts say. The glacier spans an area equal to the island of ...

from a depot near Thwaites Glacier - a drive of more than 1,000km. King Edward Point Research Station As part of the Hungry Humpbacks project, researchers at King Edward Point Research Station will be ...

In 1902, Robert Falcon Scott, aboard the Discovery, sighted the distant western coast of the territory, but it was in 1929 when Dean Smith, pilot of Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition, made the first ...

The team discovered that ice loss from Thwaites is expected to accelerate this century Scientists studying Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, often referred to as the "Doomsday Glacier," have made a ...

New research published this week suggests tidal action on the underside of Thwaites in the Antarctic will “inexorably” accelerate melting this century. Loss of the massive glacier as well as ...

The outlook for "Doomsday Glacier" just got gloomier. Scientists are warning the Antarctic Ice Sheet, known formally as the Thwaites Glacier, will deteriorate "further and faster" and that sea ...

Just a tiny chunk of the Thwaites Glacier, which holds enough ice to raise sea levels by two feet, if it collapses. © International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration ...

Tidal action on the underside of the Thwaites Glacier in the Antarctic will “inexorably” accelerate melting this century, according to new research by British and American scientists.