As ‘doomsday’ glacier melts, can an artificial barrier save it?
Grist
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Recent monitoring by uncrewed submarines and satellites, along with ice-sheet modeling, suggest that the Thwaites Glacier and its adjacent smaller twin, the Pine Island Glacier, may already be in a death spiral — eaten up by the intensifying speed and warmth of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current. We need other tools.”
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