US and UK join forces to understand how quickly a massive Antarctic glacier could collapse

US and UK join forces to understand how quickly a massive Antarctic glacier could collapse

The collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica could significantly affect global sea levels. As part of a new $25 million research collaboration, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) announced today that teams of scientists at U.S. institutions will deploy to Antarctica to gather the data needed to understand whether the glacier could begin to collapse in the next few decades or centuries from now.

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Published April 30, 2018 at 03:00AM
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