Experts say the glacier is holding on 'by its fingernails.'
It’s nicknamed “Doomsday Glacier” because it continues to melt underwater as the planet warms, and it has a high risk of collapse.
If that happens, it could raise the global sea level by several feet, which could lead to widespread destruction of the coastlines., scientists mapped the glacier’s historical retreat, hoping to predict what it might do in the future. They found that at some point in the past two centuries, the base of the glacier retreated at twice the rate that scientists have observed in the past decade or so.
Scientists said swift disintegration suggests the Thwaites Glacier has the capability to undergo a retreat at a much faster pace than they had thought.Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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