2023年11月15日 · The air above Antarctica is also heating up, causing surface melting that can trigger the collapse of ice shelves. In March 2022, East Antarctica was hit by the most extreme heatwave ever recorded on Earth, with temperatures soaring 38℃ above normal. If this heatwave had occurred in the summer, temperatures above melting point would have been ...

2020年8月20日 · Reversing decades of sea ice growth, Antarctica has experienced melting at an unprecedented rate in recent years. More than 2 million square kilometres of the region’s sea ice has disappeared since 2014.

2018年4月5日 · In a paper for the journal Nature they argue that disastrous sea level rise could be delayed if we stop Antarctica and Greenland’s main glaciers from melting. And they have come up with proposals for massive geoengineering projects that they say could stop much of Antarctica and Greenland’s grounded ice from reaching the sea for centuries.

2018年6月14日 · Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth and almost 220 billion tonnes of it is melting into the ocean each year. That is pushing up global sea levels by 0.6mm annually, a three-fold increase since the last assessment in 2012.

2021年10月7日 · Basal melt refers to the melting of ice shelves from underneath, and in the case of Antarctica, interactions with the ocean are thought to be the main cause. But gathering scientific observations beneath ice shelves is a major logistical challenge, leading to a dearth of data about this phenomenon.

2019年11月18日 · Apart from Arctic ice melting fast, even Antarctica has lost almost 2 million square kilometres of sea ice cover since 2014. Image: Statista A pattern similar to the Arctic ice melting is seen in the Antarctic, which has lost around a sixth of its ice cover since 2014 .

2020年10月14日 · The melting ice could raise the sea level by an additional 2.7 to 4.3 inches on top of the 10.6 to 14.9 inches that simpler models predict by the year 2100. Climate Action New predictions show Antarctica's ice sheets could melt far sooner than expected

2019年5月20日 · The study relied on 25 years of satellite data covering 1992 to 2017. The satellites were fitted with altimeters to measure height changes to the ice sheets. Researchers then used weather models to separate seasonal variation due to snow fall from melting and ice loss caused by long term climate change, BBC News explained.

2017年5月11日 · And rather than diseases being released by melting ice, some argue that as Earth warms northern countries will become more susceptible to outbreaks of "southern" diseases like malaria, cholera and dengue fever, as these pathogens thrive at warmer temperatures.

2023年3月3日 · The Antarctic ice sheet has been strongly decreasing since 2016. If left unchecked, the complete melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet would cause a global sea level increase of 3.3 metres in the future, says an expert.