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Antarctica’s doomsday glacier Thwaites glacier is collapsing, with huge consequences for the future of our planet, finds Alison George T HE fates of coastal cities worldwide, from New York to Manila, depend on a vast but little-understood glacier that is losing ice alarmingly quickly. “What happens in Antarctica does not stay in Antarctica. It affects everybody. It affects everything,” says Peter Davis at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). This glacier has long been an enigma. It was first sighted from the air in 1940 by an expedition led by US Admiral Richard E. Byrd and was the last part of Antarctica’s coastline to be mapped in detail. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3602期 · 2026年7月4日。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。