Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to create an X-ray of the crucial glacier. As the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it causes a “powerful melt” under the glacier and … Read more
Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to create an X-ray of the crucial glacier. As the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it causes a “powerful melt” under the glacier and … Read more
The Thwaites Glacier is the widest in the world, but it loses enormous amounts of ice every year.NASA Geoengineers plan to test massive underwater curtains that could slow the catastrophic melting of glaciers. The Thwaites, also known as the ‘doomsday glacier’, has lost more than 1 trillion tons of ice since 2000. If the Thwaites … Read more