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14 hours agoDoomsday Glacier Approaching Catastrophic Collapse
Thwaites Glacier's ice shelf is rapidly fracturing and weakening, threatening potential collapse that could raise global sea levels by up to 11 feet.
Study author Mattia Poinelli at the University of California, Irvine, said the vortexes 'look exactly like a storm' and are 'strongly energetic'. 'There is a very vertical and turbulent motion that happens near the surface,' Dr Poinelli told climate organisation Grist. 'In the future, where there is going to be more warm water, more melting, we're going to probably see more of these effects in different areas of Antarctica.'
'Only one vessel—the U.S. research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer—has successfully penetrated the area's phalanx of sea ice...to reach a critical location on Thwaites, widely considered the world's most dangerous glacier.'