3 days ago · A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot water to punch through ice.

5 days ago · A team of researchers from the UK and Korea has reached the most inaccessible and least-understood part of Thwaites Glacier.

4 days ago · Scientists to drill into Antarctica’s fragile ‘Doomsday Glacier’ that poses threat to world’s oceans Researchers have never drilled into the Thwaites glacier before

2 days ago · On Thwaites itself, part of the team will try today to drop a fiber-optic cable through a 3,200-foot borehole in the ice, near the glacier’s grounding line, where the ocean is eating away at it ...

Here, they will drill through the glacier to provide never-before-seen data on how the water is melting the ice from the bottom up, adding to global sea-level rise. Thwaites Glacier – also nicknamed the …

5 hours ago · The team of 10 scientists, engineers and guides camped for more than a week on Thwaites to set up their complex operation. They used a jet of water heated to 80 degrees Celsius, …

Scientists are preparing to drill into the most inaccessible and least-understood part of Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier". The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica measures around the size of Great ...