How researchers want to protect the “doomsday glacier” from melting. Curtains are designed to keep warm ocean currents away from the melting ‘do Doomsday glacier’ Thwaites.
If all of the ice in West Antarctica disappears, water levels will probably rise by three meters. This could take decades – and could fail due to financing alone. Because the idea costs a lot of money. The researchers are currently testing at the University of Cambridge. They are trying to prove that the idea can work using a 91 centimeter long curtain in a tank.