Scientists Warn Critical Parts, of 'Doomsday Glacier', Melting Faster Than Expected.<br />Mashable reports that recent research suggests <br />that the Florida-sized Thwaites Glacier has <br />the potential to affect the entire world. .<br />The massive formation holds <br />a colossal amount of ice that could <br />raise global sea levels by over two feet. .<br />In addition to this, its collapse due to a warming <br />climate could unleash even more ice from neighboring <br />glaciers, triggering further sea level rise.<br />Since the 1990s, the Antarctic glacier <br />has retreated nearly nine miles as it <br />continues to destabilize.<br />The trajectory of its melting in the coming decades and <br />centuries has the potential to submerge coastal cities <br />and other populated areas around the world.<br />Thwaites is the one spot in Antarctica <br />that has the potential to dump an <br />enormous amount of water into <br />the ocean over the next decades, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, professor of glaciology <br />at Penn State University, via Mashable.<br />Mashable reports that , the Thwaites glacier has been dubbed , the "Doomsday Glacier.".<br />According to the latest 2023 research, <br />beneath the ice shelf lies critical points <br />which hold back many other colossal glaciers. .<br />The most recent research, published in 'Nature,' <br />found that Thwaites is melting faster than expected<br />in cracks directly below that floating ice shelf.<br />Scientists suggest that warmer water <br />seeping into natural cracks has amplified <br />the melting at these specific weak points.
