Thwaites Glacier Antarctica

Thwaites Glacier: Antarctica’s doomsday glacier could become unhinged this very decade.

At the fall 2021 meeting of the American Geophysical Union on 13 December, a presentation on the latest for the Thwaites Glacier (also dubbed the Doomsday Glacier) highlighted processes at the ice shelf of the glacier, which will likely result in dramatic changes within 10 years. Meaning, acceleration of ice discharge into the Ocean, and…