“We haven’t yet considered putting the brakes on glaciers. But we should†(Image: Timothy Archibald)
You have been studying the in West Antarctica. Tell us about it.
It’s one of the largest ice streams draining the West Antarctic ice sheet, hundreds of kilometres long and about 100 kilometres wide. It used to discharge as much water as the Missouri river in the US.
What is it that you find intriguing about that ice stream?
Whillans is behaving oddly. It is slowing down. Because of internal ice-sheet dynamics, it has lost about 50 per cent of its…
