What the rapid ice melt in West Antarctica means
The rapid melting of ice sheet in West Antarctica is now unavoidable, which will increase sea level rise, a new study said.
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The rapid melting of ice sheet in West Antarctica is now unavoidable, which will increase sea level rise, a new study said.
This landscape, located in East Antarctica's Wilkes Land region bordering the Indian Ocean, covers an area roughly the size of Belgium or US state of Maryland | Travel
Researchers discovered a hidden ancient river landscape "frozen in time" underneath the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Future sea-level rise may have been underestimated, a new study warns, with more melt "locked in".
The melting of West Antarctica's ice shelves is likely to substantially accelerate in coming decades even if the world meets ambitions to limit global warming, according to research Monday, warning it would drive rising sea levels."It illustrates how our past choices have likely committed us to substantial melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its consequent sea level rise -- to which we will inevitably have to adapt as a society over coming decades and centuries," he told Science Media Ce