Several major U.S. cities could be impacted if the Thwaites Glacier were to melt, according to NOAA projections.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden force behind the rapid melting of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—powerful wind jets known as low-level jets. These fast-moving winds, intensified by polar storms, are ...

Study reveals low-level wind jets reaching 32 m/s in Antarctica's Amundsen Sea region accelerate Thwaites and Pine Island glacier melting.

New research reveals powerful Antarctic winds that could be accelerating glacier melt and rising seas. In the far reaches of West Antarctica, along the rugged coastline of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, ...

In this episode of Focus, we report from Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where global leaders, scientists, and climate experts have ...

Antarctica's so-called Doomsday Glacier ... While places like Greenland — where in 2019 Holland studied the melting Helheim Glacier — are melting from warm air above, Thwaites and its ...

When the melting Birch Glacier on crumbled on Wednesday ... Thwaites Glacier has been dubbed "doomsday glacier" for its potential impact on what some researchers call "abrupt" sea level rise.

These previously unknown atmospheric forces could hold the key to understanding—and predicting—the alarming melt ... glaciers: Pine Island and Thwaites, the latter ominously called the ...

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Thwaites is ominously called the "Doomsday Glacier" for its potential ... as well as the open ocean. These glaciers are currently melting at an accelerating pace, resulting in increased sea- ...

U.S. icebreakers serve to clear passages through icy waterways. Their reinforced hulls are designed to break apart the ice, ...

The Doomsday Glacier is a massive chunk of ice roughly the size of Florida, and it is melting at a rate that has surprised scientists. Its collapse is something scientists fear because of the enormous ...