The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are sending scientists to the remote region by land, sea, and air to study every aspect of this massive glacier and better predict how it will impact the world's coastlines in the coming decades and centuries. So far, the glacier has contributed only a few millimeters to global sea level rise, but scientists worry that if the whole West Antarctic ice sheet collapses, levels could rise significantly more. Thwaites Glacier is melting and its collapse could raise sea levels significantly around the world. [Extracted from the article]
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