which if you weaken will make the ice further upstream in the glacier flow faster." How will the new survey information be used? Scientists need real-world data to corral their models so that when ...

An ice shelf dubbed the 'Doomsday' glacier is melting amid fears the world map could change forever amid rising sea levels/ The Thwaites Glacier, part of the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet ...

"We now have satellite observations for every glacier in the world that we used to calibrate our models," says coauthor and hydrologist Rodrigo Aguayo also of Vrije Universiteit Brussel.