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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

"The Thwaites is pretty much doomed." The findings are the culmination of six years of research conducted by the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, a collective of more than 100 scientists.

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.

Their work is part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, a five-year effort to gather data that will create more accurate models of sea-level rise rates for the coming century.This ...

Thwaites Glacier holds enough ice to raise global sea level by more than 2 feet (0.65 meters). Once Thwaites starts to destabilize, it also will destabilize neighboring glaciers .