Antarctica ’s ice is shrinking at an unprecedented rate that could imperil coastal regions worldwide

The Antarctic ice sheet lost nearly 3 trillion metric tons of ice from 1992 to 2017, and its rate of loss over that time tripled in West Antarctica, according to an international collaboration involving about 80 scientists.The finding,published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals that the...

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