NASA Study Reveals Decades of Antarctic Ice Loss That Went Under the Radar
CNET, 2022-08-12
Since 1997, the edge of Antarctica’s ice sheet has lost about 12 trillion metric tons of ice, according to a NASA-led study based on satellite imagery published Wednesday in the journal Nature. That rather alarming fact is made worse by the researchers’ realization that this figure is twice what previous estimates suggested and likely to accelerate in tandem with Earth’s climate warming as a result of human-induced climate change.
Satellite imagery shows Antarctic ice shelf crumbling faster than thought
Reuters, 2022-08-11
Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world’s largest ice sheet over the past 25 years,
An Antarctic ice shelf on a sunny day (IMAGE)
EurekAlert!, 2022-08-12
Prior to developing this model, the team has traveled to Antarctica to make measurements of temperature and salinity of the water and ice. Their new model shows that an often-overlooked narrow ocean current along the Antarctic coast can play a large role in how heat gets trapped beneath the ice shelves,
Recent studies find previously unknown loss of Antarctic ice
Phys.org, 2022-08-10
New research on Antarctica, including the first map of iceberg calving, doubles the previous estimates of loss from ice shelves and details how the continent is changing.
Fate of ‘sleeping giant’ East Antarctic ice sheet ‘in our hands’ – study
The Guardian, 2022-08-10
Melting of the world’s biggest ice sheet would cause catastrophic sea level rise, but can be avoided with fast climate action
Melting of East Antarctic Ice Sheet could cause sea level rise
BBC, 2022-08-11
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet was previously viewed as less vulnerable to the impacts of climate change compared to the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, but if global temperatures continue to rise it cause lead to a dramatic increase in sea levels.
Antarctic glaciers crumbling fast
The Taipei Times, 2022-08-11
Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world’s largest ice sheet over the past 25 years,