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  2. Scientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What ...

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    Since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites — often dubbed the “Doomsday Glacier” — up close to better understand ...

  3. Thwaites Glacier - Wikipedia

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    Thwaites Glacier is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier located east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land.It was initially sighted by polar researchers in 1940, mapped in 1959–1966 and officially named in 1967, after the late American glaciologist Fredrik T. Thwaites.

  4. The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is rapidly melting. Scientists now ...

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    The glacier already contributes 4% of sea level rise as it sheds billions of tons of ice a year into the ocean. Its complete collapse could raise sea levels by more than 2 feet.

  5. "Doomsday Glacier" set to retreat "further and faster ... - AOL

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    The "Doomsday Glacier," roughly the size of the state of Florida, is one of the largest glaciers in the world. Scientists predict that its collapse could contribute to 65 centimeters, or roughly ...

  6. Scientists warn that a key Atlantic current could collapse ...

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    Ice loss from the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsdayglacier because its collapse could precipitate rapid Antarctic ice loss, may be unstoppable. ... In a news release, COP29 ...

  7. Doomsday Glacier won’t collapse in coming decades, but ...

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    While Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is still headed for catastrophe as the Earth warms, scientists said this week that some expected worst-case scenarios could be unlikely this century ...

  8. Thwaites Ice Shelf - Wikipedia

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    The Thwaites Ice Shelf has acted like a dam for the eastern portion of glacier, bracing it and allowing for a slow melt rate, in contrast to the undefended western portion. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] According to the American Geophysical Union in a 2021 study, the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf (TEIS) buttresses one-third of Thwaites glacier .

  9. Britney Schmidt - Wikipedia

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    Britney Schmidt (born 1982/1983) is an American earth scientist and astrobiologist [1] at Cornell University.She has conducted research on the melting of ice shelves in Antarctica and studied Jupiter's moon Europa.