Thwaites Glacier goes by an arguably unflattering nickname, the "Doomsday Glacier," and there is a very understandable reason for this. The western Antarctic natural wonder is roughly the size of ...

A Finnish scientist now wants to save the glacier with the help of an ambitious project. The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is melting and causing sea levels to rise globally.

The first explorers known to have reached the North Pole spent ... the vast Thwaites glacier is cracking under the pressure of global warming (see "Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier is heading ...