Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier Is Collapsing 3x Faster Than Expected

Ajouté : 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Scientists just discovered a cavity the size of Manhattan hidden beneath Antarctica's most dangerous glacier and it's growing fast enough to change human [music] civilization. We're talking about the Thwaites Glacier and in 2023 deep-sea robots dove beneath it and found something terrifying.

[00:00:16]>> [music] >> The glacier is actually separating from its underwater bedrock three times faster than any climate model [music] predicted.

[00:00:23]Warm seawater about 2° above freezing is carving out this massive cavity underneath like someone slowly sawing through the foundation of a building.

[00:00:32]Here's what keeps scientists up at night. Once Thwaites fully destabilizes, it will dump enough ice into the ocean to raise global sea levels [music] by 65 cm almost instantly in geological terms.

[00:00:42]That's not just a number. That's [music] coastal cities flooded. That's infrastructure destroyed. That's millions of people displaced.

[00:00:50]But the truly staggering part, this process might already be irreversible.

[00:00:54][music] The robots showed us we're not just watching this glacier melt anymore.

[00:00:59]We're watching the point of no return happen in real-time and there's nothing we can do to stop what's already been set in motion.