One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers is emerging as a potentially greater driver of future sea-level rise than previously understood.
A team of glaciologists at the University of California and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a new ice sheet model to come up with a more accurate projection of the melting of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The findings, published in Nature Communications, estimate that the glacier could contribute up to 1.2…
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