‘Doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida hanging on ‘by its fingernails’: Scientists

By Cami Mondeaux

Published September 10, 2022 5:45pm ET

‘Doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida hanging on ‘by its fingernails’: Scientists — This Feb. 1, 2022 satellite image from the European Space Agency, annotated by marine geophysicist Robert Larter, shows the positions of research vessels RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and the RV Araon on the ice shelf areas extending from Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. "EIS" indicates the Eastern Ice Shelf, where a lot of work was conducted in 2020 and which recently published studies have suggested is likely to break up sometime within the next couple of decades. | (Robert Larter/British Antarctic Survey, ESA via AP)

A glacier in Antarctica that is predicted to melt rapidly over the coming years has prompted widespread concerns among scientists who say its collapse would cause significant risks to global sea levels.

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