A robot lowered through the ice reveals how the Thwaites shelf is melting, which will help forecast its effect on global sea level. The Icefin robot is lowered by cable into the ocean below the ...

University of California, Davis professor Eric Rignot just published more data he asserts support the notion that the Thwaites ice shelf is in imminent danger of self-destruction. He further ...

The research, published in two studies Wednesday in the journal Nature, concludes that Thwaites' retreat appears to be driven by different processes beneath its floating ice shelf – which holds ...

The calving front of Thwaites' ice shelf. The blue area is light reflecting off ice below the water. James Yungel/NASA Icebridge ...

The team is focusing on the 60-kilometer-wide ice shelf at the front end of the Thwaites Glacier, which extends beyond the shoreline of Antarctica and forms a 800-foot-thick floating ice shelf on the ...

The findings will help assess the threat it and other ice shelves pose for long-term sea-level rise. The researchers said that overall melting of the underside of part of the Thwaites shelf in ...

Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level rise — is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research. The Thwaites ...

The Thwaites Ice Shelf appeared healthy on the surface. But if that were the case, Pettit wouldn't have been there. Pettit was studying defects within the ice, akin to hidden cracks in an enormous ...