West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glaciers, known as doomsday glaciers, have begun retreating rapidly from its position, according to a new scientific study.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that the glacier had begun to melt since the 1940s but the phenomenon has escalated in the last few decades.
Geoscientists predicted the melting of this glacier in the 1970s, but it was not known when the melting began.
Scientists discovered through marine sedimentary analysis that the Thwaites and Pineland glaciers had lost contact with the seafloor in the 1940s.
“Researchers are concerned that Thwaites Glacier isn’t bouncing back from its retreat, unlike most glaciers that naturally grow and shrink over time,” the Earth website noted.
The crisis is likely to escalate further because of global warming, causing the earth to heat up. The research mentioned that if Thwaites falls, it’ll create a domino effect, subsequently causing other glaciers to fall and raising sea levels to unpretending levels.
