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Data from ESA's CryoSat satellite reveal insights about subglacial lakes under Thwaites Glacier

Satellite reveals surprising ebb and flow of subglacial lakes under Thwaites Glacier

Hidden from view by ice kilometres thick, there is a vast network of lakes and streams under the Antarctic ice sheet. Read More

ITGC Supports Black Lives Matter

ITGC Supports Black Lives Matter

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ITGC Community Norms and Values Statement

In fall 2019, researchers of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration created a guiding document of values and norms for our community's behavior. Read More

Thwaites Glacier, credit The Guardian

Submarine to explore why Antarctic ice is melting so quickly

From the Guardian: An international team of scientists has reached the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica and is preparing to drill through more than half a kilometre of ice into the dark waters beneath. Read More

WAIS Divide galley

TIME update from the field 26 Dec 2019

Greetings from WAIS Divide. Jake Walter here, co-I on the TIME project, which is part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC). I am the State Seismologist at the Oklahoma Geological Survey and they have loaned me out to the project to lead the field team this season. Read More

Thwaites Glacier from the air, by David Vaughan

'The closest thing on Earth to interplanetary travel'

Finding out how fast Antarctic ice is melting is critical to understanding the scale of the climate crisis. The BBC's chief environmental correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, is therefore joining scientists as they check the health of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. But first he has to undergo some checks himself.

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Thwaites Glacier, credit British Antarctic Survey

Thwaites Glacier: Antarctica’s wild card

Nearly 100 scientists and staff from around the world, including University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and CIRES scientist Ted Scambos, departed last month to conduct fieldwork in one of the most remote and inhospitable areas on Earth: Thwaites Glacier in West A Read More

Grease ice dampens ripples in the water near sunset over the Amundsen Sea. Photo credit: Carolyn Beeler/The World

Antarctica dispatch 8: Behold grease, shuga and pancake ice

Carolyn Beeler of PRI's The World reports: The research team aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer is starting to wrap up their work studying Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Read More

Tagged seal photographed by Lars Boehme

Seals to act as sentinels of remote Antarctic glacier

A team of over 20 polar scientists from the UK, US and Sweden set sail this week (29 January) on the first ship-based research expedition to Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.

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