New ‘Doomsday Glacier’ study offers a bit of hope
What we are seeing with Thwaites Glacier right now is a disaster in slow motion.
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname the “Doomsday Glacier” for its potential to flood coastlines around the world if it collapsed. It is already contributing about 4% of annual sea-level rise as it loses ice, and one theory suggests the glacier could soon begin to collapse into the ocean like a row of dominoes.