In 25 years, Antarctica lost enough ice to raise sea level by nearly 8 millimeters, research shows

The Antarctic ice sheet lost nearly 3 trillion metric tons of ice from 1992 to 2017 and tripled its rate of loss over that time for West Antarctica, according to an international collaboration involving some 80 scientists.The findingpublished in Nature reveals that Antarctica ’s ice is shrinking...

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - June 13, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Amina Khan Source Type: news