This glacier is located in Antarctica, and a recent NASA study has discovered a large cavity inside the glacier. The cavity has an area of ​​almost 2 / 3 in Manhattan and is nearly 305 deep.

Thwaites Glacier

This glacier is only responsible for 4% global sea level rise. If this glacier melts, it may increase ocean levels by up to 60 cm. This glacier also holds a large portion of the other ice of western Antarctica. If it collapsed, a massive increase in sea levels could occur up to an 2,5 meter.

A recent study has found a distinctive cavity that indicates that the glacier is slowly decaying. So it is necessary to act!

Scientists expected to find a few cracks to support and try to fill the holes with another ice. However, this distinctive cavity is shocked. All the hottest streams that slow down the lower part of the glaciers. There are cracks and the risk of tearing down the glacier.

Eric Rignot Laboratory Member of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory says:

“We thought Thwaites was not firmly attached to the ground. New technologies will allow us to monitor the glacier and its behavior in more detail depending on the weather and water temperature changes. So we can predict how quickly sea levels will rise globally. ”

Black scenarios

Black scenarios of previous studies have estimated melting and melting glaciers over the next 200 to 1000 years. However, recent data show that this phenomenon may occur much earlier than originally assumed. It is assumed that over 100 years should disappear up to 120 km of this glacier.

Scientists are planning more detailed research on this glacier in the near future. This research could help to suggest what are the possibilities of its "rescue". Some islands are already on the verge of existence due to ever-increasing ocean levels. In the future, the island Maldives in the Indian Ocean or Kiribati and Tuvalu in the South Pacific could disappear.