Antarctica in crisis: Ice shelves shrinking fast with no sign of recovery
This alarming revelation points to the accelerating impact of climate change on the world’s southernmost continent.
Read MoreScientists count huge melts in many protective Antarctic ice shelves. Trillions of tons of ice …
Antarctica has lost 7.5tn tonnes of ice since 1997, scientists find
Study finds more than 40% of ice shelves have shrunk, with millions of tonnes of freshwater entering ocean
Read MoreAntarctic Ice Shelves Suffering Alarming Losses Due to Changing Climate, Reveals New Study …
Some of the biggest ice losses were observed on the Getz Ice Shelf, where 1.9 trillion metric tonnes of ice was lost over the 25-year study period. – Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com
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Read MoreAntarctic loses 8.3 trillion tons of ice
Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30% since 1997, and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a
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