Six massive glaciers in West Antarctica are moving faster than they did 40 years ago, causing more ice to discharge into the ocean and global…
Ice loss in Antarctica has tripled in a decade, pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean each year, according to new research published June 6 by a team of 80 scientists and reported this week in The Washington Post.
If acceleration of the melt rate continues, low-lying cities and communities will have less time to prepare for rising oceans than hoped, the scientists warn, and nations have a shorter window – perhaps no more than a decade – to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and avert some of the worst consequences of climate change, the Post reports. Read the full story here.
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