- Deep Inside an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses at Its Final Step --- Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath. By @zhonggg.bsky.social in @nytimes.com 1/4
- "A daring attempt to study Antarctica’s fast-melting Thwaites Glacier collapsed over the weekend after the scientists’ instruments became entombed within the half-mile-thick ice." By @zhonggg.bsky.social 2/4
Feb 4, 2026 03:30
- "A team of British and South Korean researchers was trying to install instruments beneath the immense glacier, where they would collect data, the first of its kind, on the warm ocean waters that are melting away the ice at a rate of hundreds of feet per year." By @zhonggg.bsky.social 3/4
- "Scientists fear that if Thwaites sheds too much ice, it could cause more of the vast West Antarctic ice sheet to start sliding rapidly into the sea, swamping coastal communities worldwide with as much as 15 feet of extra water over the coming centuries." By @zhonggg.bsky.social 4/4
