2026-05-25
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We talked about sea level rise recently on the podcast,
and today we're here to discuss some very worrying news about the world's widest glacier.
That's the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, sometimes called the Doomsday Glacier.
And with good reason.
Yeah, so Thwaites has this massive glacier, size of Florida or Britain.
Mind-bogglingly big, isn't it?
On the end of it, there's this big tongue of ice hanging off into the ocean.
And the news is that that ice shelf is about to detach from the main part of the glacier.
And that has basically desperate implications for sea level rise.
From New Scientist, this is the World, the Universe and Us.
I'm Dr. Rowan Hooper.