#West Antarctica

Author: Shaena Montanari / Source: Atlas Obscura Down in the notoriously vulnerable ice sheet of West Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier seems to be breaking up faster than ever, and it’s looking like 2019 might be another busy year. The ice shelf calved major icebergs in 2013, 2015, 2017, and

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News Sea level rise over the next century won’t get a feared boost from Antarctic ice cliffs crumbling into the ocean like dominoes, a new study suggests. The finding, published February 7 in Nature, is based on a new statistical analysis showing that

Author: Laurel Hamers / Source: Science News for Students Antarctica’s ice is melting faster and faster. In the past five years, the frozen continent has lost ice three times faster, on average, than it did over the previous 20 years. An international team of scientists has made the most

Content originally published at iBankCoin.com I will not pretend to be a scientist in this blog, or even claim to know the very first thing about global warming or lack thereof. I am more interested in human narratives, how they are woven, and the basis from which they were formed. Just like in

Author: Frank Jacobs / Source: Big Think Polynesia is gone – sunk beneath the waves. Pakistan and South India have been abandoned. And Europe is slowly turning into a desert. This is the world, 4°C warmer than it is now. But there is also good news: Western Antarctica is no longer icy and