An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warn.
Thwaites is the widest glacier in the world and has doubled its rate of melt within the last 30 years, a researcher said.An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warned Wednesday.
The glacier, a river of flowing ice, is blocked from falling into the sea by the eastern ice shelf, which sits atop an underwater mountain and is disintegrating.suggests the final collapse of the ice shelf may occur"within as little as 5 years" and mark the beginning of the end of the Thwaites Glacier.
Scientists pointed to a zigzag path they say is the likely site for the ice shelf to crack and disintegrate.
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