'Extraordinary': Almost 1/4 of West Antarctic ice
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Posted On: 05/19/2019 8:23:14 AM
'Extraordinary': Almost 1/4 of West Antarctic ice is now 'unstable'
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/20...706584002/
More unsettling news from the bottom of the world.
Almost one-quarter of the ice in the West Antarctic ice sheet has been classified as "unstable," according to a new study released this week.
This is due to the huge volume of ice that's melted from the ice sheet over the past 25 years. Some areas are losing ice five times faster than they were in the early 1990s.
“In parts of Antarctica, the ice sheet has thinned by extraordinary amounts," said study lead author Andy Shepherd, a polar scientist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/20...706584002/
More unsettling news from the bottom of the world.
Almost one-quarter of the ice in the West Antarctic ice sheet has been classified as "unstable," according to a new study released this week.
This is due to the huge volume of ice that's melted from the ice sheet over the past 25 years. Some areas are losing ice five times faster than they were in the early 1990s.
“In parts of Antarctica, the ice sheet has thinned by extraordinary amounts," said study lead author Andy Shepherd, a polar scientist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
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