The front faceof the Thwaites Ice Shelf towers up to 40 meters above the sea. The slab of floating ice is rapidly weakening. Credit: Elizabeth Rush
Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide
November 1, 2022
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Douglas Foxwrites about biology, geology and climate science from California. He wrote the July 2021 article “The Carbon Rocks of Oman,” about efforts to turn carbon dioxide into solid minerals.Credit: Nick Higgins
On December 26, 2019, Erin Pettit trudged across a plain of glaring snow and ice, dragging an ice-penetrating radar unit the size of a large suitcase on a red plastic sled behind her. The brittle snow crunched like cornflakes underneath her boots—evidence that it had recently melted and refrozen following a series of warm summer days. Pettit was…
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