The melting of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, also known as the “glacier of the apocalypse”, threatens to flood at least three Russian cities.Sochi, St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don were particularly at risk. Ruslan Sharafutdinov, director of the Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Siberian Federal University, made a corresponding statement.At the same time, Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk, which are 127 and 86 meters above sea level, will not suffer in any way even if the water level in the ocean rises by 25 meters. According to the scientist, the Thwaites glacier is characterized by a high speed of movement, writes Nature.
