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Rachael Davies

Thwaites glacier: What is the ‘Doomsday’ glacier and what could collapse mean?

Seafloor images shed new light on Thwaites glacier’s retreat

(Picture: Anna Wahlin/University of Gothenburg)

In Antarctica, there is a glacier larger than Florida known as the Thwaites glacier, named after geologist Fredrik T Thwaites. However, it also has a more ominous name: the Doomsday glacier.

This nickname was attributed to the glacier because of its high risk of raising sea levels to a critical level.

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