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News Release 16-133
NSF, U.K. jointly support research into fate of massive Antarctic glacier
Collapse of the rapidly receding Thwaites Glacier could cause as much as nine feet of sea-level rise
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The Thwaites Ice Shelf edge as seen from a NASA Operation IceBridge aircraft in 2012.
Credit: James Yungel, NASA
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