If they collapse, a pathway for ice streams from surrounding ... In December, scientists concluded that an ice shelf on the periphery of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica could break off ...

The ice shelves surrounding Antarctica act like a cork in a bottle, restraining the flow of glacial ice from the continent out onto the sea. When they collapse, a restraining force on landed ice ...

Antarctica is ringed by a skirt of ice sheets and floating ice shelves that create a ... scientists think that if the entire Thwaites glacier were to collapse, it could destabilize surrounding ...

Scambos said the ice shelf is not on the path of the increasingly popular tourist ships that travel from South America to Antarctica. But some plants and animals may have to adapt to the collapse.

A rift is extending farther across the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, threatening to set in motion the collapse of the entire shelf. A large rift is widening across an increasingly fragile ...

Thwaites is likely to retreat unstably in the coming centuries, which underscores the need to better understand how the glacier will respond to ocean warming and ice-shelf collapse through ongoing ...

Scientists know already that Thwaites Glacier ... investigate changes on the ice and in the ocean. Their goal is to investigate the implications of a major glacier collapse on future sea level ...