Giant cavity found eating away at Antarctic glacier from underneath

Glaciers are kind of an endangered species in our rapidly-warming world, and unfortunately scientists keep finding new threats to them. NASA's ongoing Operation IceBridge has now found a gigantic cavity underneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, which shows that the area has suffered even more drastic ice loss in recent years than previously thought – and it's accelerating.

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Category: Environment

Tags:

• Antarctic
• Climate
• climate change
• Climate Change
• Environment
• Environmental
• glacier
• Ice
• JPL
• NASA

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2CTFXNg