by faster | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: NYU DATE: January 29,2020 SNIP: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, the presence of warm water at a vital point underneath a glacier in Antarctica—an alarming discovery that points to the cause behind the gradual melting of this ice...
by faster | Jul 9, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 9, 2019 SNIP: Antarctica faces a tipping point where glacial melting will accelerate and become irreversible even if global heating eases, research suggests. A Nasa-funded study found instability in the Thwaites glacier meant there...
by faster | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: NASA and Science Alert DATE: January 30, 2019 SNIP: A gigantic cavity – two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall – growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several disturbing discoveries...
by faster | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Washington Post DATE: April 30, 2018 SNIP: The largest U.S.-British Antarctic mission in seven decades officially launched at an event in Cambridge on Monday, as the two countries pooled dollars and scientific resources for missions to West Antarctica’s...
by faster | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Grist DATE: November 21, 2017 SNIP: The glaciers of Pine Island Bay are two of the largest and fastest-melting in Antarctica. (A Rolling Stone feature earlier this year dubbed Thwaites “The Doomsday Glacier.”) Together, they act as a plug holding back enough...