Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" could lose its ice shelf this year, Live Science reports, according to UNN.
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Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier earned the nickname "Doomsday Glacier" because its collapse would raise global sea levels by 65 centimeters and flood coastal areas around the world.
The disintegration of the shelf is "very likely to happen sometime this year," said Robert Larter, a marine geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
While scientists cannot provide an exact timeframe for the collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, they do not believe it will happen in the immediate future, the publication notes.
Researchers do not expect the glacier to collapse soon, but the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf is fracturing, which will likely accelerate its demise.
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