The Last Judgment Glacier Is About to Disappear and Scientists Activate the Alarm: without that Stopper, the Sea Level Will Rise 65 Centimeters
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The Thwaites Glacier, in Western Antarctica, turns the alarms back on. Not because it will disappear tomorrow, but because one of the pieces that helps to slow it down, its eastern ice platform, is cracking and losing stability at great speed. Data from the Thwaites Glacier International Collaboration point out that this platform, the last large floating extension of the glacier to the ocean, is being destabilized by widening cracks, rather than…
The sea level could rise 65 centimeters by the collapse of a single glacier, and that is exactly what scientists are seeing speeding up in real time. The Thwaites glacier in Western Antarctica has tripled its flow rate between 2020 and 2026, and its cracks no longer allow optimistic interpretations. What for years was a theoretical warning has become an increasingly concrete countdown. Spain is not on the sidelines of this process. Mediterranean…
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