Don’t mean to alarm you, but there’s a big hole in the world’s most important glacier

Don’t mean to alarm you, but there’s a big hole in the world’s most important glacier

Posted by on Feb 4, 2019 @ 8:40 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: February 4, 2019

Civilization’s most important glacier has revealed another worrying surprise to scientists. The Thwaites Glacier, the largest outflow channel of the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet, now has a gigantic subterranean hole. The hollowed-out section is two-thirds the size of Manhattan and 1,000 feet tall — big enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, according to...

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