Antarctic ice is fading ever faster

• Autores: Michael Slezak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3015, 2015, págs. 10-11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's melting from above and below and crumbling at the edges. Antarctica is in trouble. Its frozen edges, or ice shelves, are disappearing into the ocean. Some have thinned by up to 18 per cent in the past two decades, and the process is accelerating. The most rapidly melting ones are likely to be gone within a century. Here, Siezak examines how ice sheets respond to climate change.