{"id":87148,"date":"2020-02-10T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13637"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:13:37","slug":"explained-lessons-from-a-melting-antarctic-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-lessons-from-a-melting-antarctic-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Lessons from a melting Antarctic glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A New York University study reported water at just two degrees above freezing point at Thwaites\u2019s \u201cgrounding zone\u201d or \u201cgrounding line\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Thwaites Glacier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thwaites Glacier is located in western Antarctica and flows into Pine Island Bay, a part of the Amundsen Sea<\/li><li>According to NASA, the Thwaites Glacier is currently responsible for approximately 4% of global sea level rise. It holds enough ice to raise the world ocean by more than 2 feet.<\/li><li>It is estimated that it would collapse into the sea in 200-900 years. It is often called the Doomsday Glacier because of the risk it faces and poses.<\/li><li>A 2019 NASA-led study had discovered a giant cavity growing at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/881I1GBQ1JkLZGM0vs7dETqRQtbht5ZfCmRSSc1Ok7NuWpQe_n4Glc7phMRzNVeGsdV_WLC7GUcWiwdB_dw3QliA1sLOAHVO_Wb-jSqOKCLO8v9WNqN3n5eaUCwxTJt4MsafEHBT\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grounding Line<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The grounding line is the place below a glacier at which the ice transitions from grounded ice sheet to freely floating ice shelf on the ocean.<\/li><li>The location of the line is a pointer to the rate of retreat of a glacier.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/9-1k5ztz3DWXU8ub_bobfxhNWypU373KUFtKhbf_bX_6tFClvJb55mvtF6yu3AkYER-EpH-zibSj9Fwjo1Fe5TqA0w0Yvsn-Vk0gJWe_afAVBvSeIVj8RRFHkC0ZnRSU4ae-PAfi\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A New York University study reported water at just two degrees above freezing point at Thwaites\u2019s \u201cgrounding zone\u201d or \u201cgrounding line\u201d Facts: About Thwaites Glacier Thwaites Glacier is located in western Antarctica and flows into Pine Island Bay, a part of the Amundsen Sea According to NASA, the Thwaites Glacier is currently responsible for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-lessons-from-a-melting-antarctic-glacier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: Lessons from a melting Antarctic glacier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4896],"class_list":["post-87148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-thwaites-glacier","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87148","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}