The Thwaites Glacier is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and, at 120 kilometers, is the widest glacier on Earth – and one of the most vulnerable. Photo: David Vaughan The Thwaites Glacier is Antarctica’s problem child: it is particularly vulnerable to...
The satellite image shows the Pine Island glacier in 2011, when a 30-kilometer-long crack formed and led to the calving of a 720-square-kilometer iceberg. The glacier itself is about 250 kilometers long and its catchment area is about 10 percent of the West Antarctic...
Thwaites Glacier is one the largest catchment area of glaciers on the west side of Antarctica. The ice surface, which covers an estimated 192,000 square kilometres, has contributed significantly to the current sea level rise and continues to melt at a rapid rate....
