{"id":355693,"date":"2026-02-09T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=355693"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:11:41","slug":"thwaites-glacier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thwaites-glacier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thwaites Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News- <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thwaites Glacier is in the news due to scientific concern over its rapid melting and its potential impact on global sea levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_355694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355694\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-355694\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Thwaites-Glacier.png?resize=437%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thwaites Glacier\" width=\"437\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Thwaites-Glacier.png?w=437&amp;ssl=1 437w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Thwaites-Glacier.png?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-355694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>About Thwaites Glacier<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thwaites Glacier is widely <\/span><b>known as the \u201cDoomsday Glacier\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to its potential to significantly raise global sea levels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located in<\/span><b> West Antarctica <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and flows into the <\/span><b>Amundsen Sea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Dimensions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is the <\/span><b>widest glacier on Earth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, measuring <\/span><b>about 120 kilometres in width and covering nearly 1.9 lakh square kilometres.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Monitored by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The glacier is <\/span><b>monitored by the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, a multinational scientific research initiative.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thwaites Glacier<\/span><b> holds back ice in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while its ice shelf acts as a brace that slows the flow of ice into the ocean.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News- Thwaites Glacier is in the news due to scientific concern over its rapid melting and its potential impact on global sea levels. About Thwaites Glacier Thwaites Glacier is widely known as the \u201cDoomsday Glacier\u201d due to its potential to significantly raise global sea levels. Location: It is located in West Antarctica and flows into&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thwaites-glacier-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thwaites Glacier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-355693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}