Beneath the massive ice of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, something is happening that no climate model accounts for.
When researchers lowered sonar instruments into the frigid waters at the base of Alaska’s LeConte Glacier, they expected the underwater ice face to be melting. What they did not expect was how fast.
A pair of studies this week have shed new light on the melting of the Thwaites Glacier, one of Antarctica’s largest and most menacing stretches of ice. Often referred to as the “Doomsday Glacier,” it ...