Scientists may just have identified Thwaites Glacier's Achilles heel. This Antarctic colossus is melting at a rapid rate, dumping billions of tonnes of ice in the ocean every year and pushing up ...
Thwaites: 'Doomsday Glacier' vulnerability seen in new maps Climate change and the journey to the 'doomsday glacier' 'Boaty McBoatface' survives ice mission Thwaites is a colossus. It's roughly ...
Research Interests: Thwaites Glacier, surface mass balance, extreme snowfall events, Antarctic atmospheric rivers I research the impacts of snowfall and extreme precipitation events on the surface ...
Recent findings suggest Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is melting at a faster rate than previously believed, posing significant concerns for sea-level-rise projections. Utilizing observations from ...
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 ...
A field camp at T2 on Thwaites Glacier. Pic Marianne Karplus. Teams of scientists and support staff with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, (ITGC) have spent the past couple of ...
Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is a disaster in slow motion, a polar scientist writes. But in a rare bit of good news, the worst-case scenario may be off the table. If and when the Thwaites ...