The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, which has been researching the glacier since 2018, released its results back in September.
They discovered that ice loss is not just continuing but is probably going to pick up speed this century, perhaps causing the glacier to completely melt in the next 200 years.
Rob Larter, a member of the ITGC team and a marine geophysicist of the British Antarctic Survey, noted: “Our findings indicate it is set to retreat further and faster.”
These results came soon after researchers at the University of Chicago released a study detailing several approaches to slowing sea level rise and calling for a “major initiative” to uncover and assess viable solutions.
Two primary groups of possible interventions were identified by the researchers. On the ocean bottom, ‘curtains’ are positioned to prevent warm water from melting the glacier.
Attempting to slow down the currents that remove meltwater from the ice sheets is another approach.
