Huge Cavity in Thwaites Glacier, Antartica

This latest discovery will certainly move the clock forward, as the scientific community continues to predict something so random as ice melting. The size and explosive growth rate of the newfound hole, however, surprised them. It's big enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, and most of that ice melted over the last three years. The big take-away is that present numerical models likely "underestimate how fast Thwaites is losing ice... it holds enough ice to raise the world's oceans a little over 2 feet." read more...