global warming

  • These Antarctic Glaciers Are Melting At A ‘Staggering’ Rate

    These Antarctic Glaciers Are Melting At A ‘Staggering’ Rate

    On an forbidding shoreline at the bottom of the world, the prodigious ice sheets of West Antarctica dead-end in the Amundsen sea. For decades, scientists have been monitoring this interface of rock, ice and ocean in order to understand how quickly it will retreat as the planet warms up. A new study shows that three…