5 min. video. A huge Antarctic glacier is ripping itself apart and the 'Doomsday Glacier' could be next | ABC News

New satellite data show the Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica's largest glaciers, "ripping itself apart". The unexpected loss of the ice shelf comes on top of a series of huge calving events in the last 12 months that have seen massive icebergs split away from the southern continent. Western Antarctica is particularly vulnerable because of one fatal flaw and right next door to the Pine Island Glacier is the Thwaites Glacier – or what scientists call the Doomsday Glacier. If Thwaites falls apart it could unleash the collapse of the entire ice sheet on the western half of the continent.


A stat we are missing is a map showing the location of the grounding line year by year. I understood that this is detectable by looking at the surface contours of the ice. It should include the depth of the sea bottom for each contour line.

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