Measuring how—and where—Antarctic ice is cracking with new data tool

A full illness of the astir 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest successful the world, would trigger changes that could pb to 11 feet of sea-level rise, according to scientists who survey Antarctica. To amended foretell fractures that could pb to specified a collapse—and to amended recognize the processes driving changes successful Antarctic crystal shelves—a squad led by researchers astatine Penn State developed a caller method to measure cracks that destabilize crystal shelves and accelerate those losses.