This ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought.

Click Here to Read: This ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought. Now Earth’s biggest cities are at risk: The giant glacier has been losing ice rapidly for several decades by Dr Ella Gilbert on the BBC Science Focus website on June 6, 2024.

Close look at the Thwaites Ice Shelf edge as seen from the IceBridge DC-8 on Oct. 16, 2012. The blue areas of ice are denser, compressed ice. Image NASA / James Yungel.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.