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Mathieu Morlighem, and ,The Conversation

What is Actually Happening to Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier?’ — A New Study Offers An Entirely New Perspective

— James Yungel/NASA Icebridge

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname, the “Doomsday Glacier”, for its potential to flood coastlines around the world if it collapsed. It is already contributing about 4 percent of annual sea-level rise as it loses ice, and one theory suggests the glacier could soon begin to collapse into the ocean like a row of dominoes.

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