Climate Change,is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before - about six times more a year now than 40 years ago - leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned.
Antarctic melting has raised global sea levels more than 1.4 centimetres between 1979 and 2017, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer-reviewed US journal, on Monday Jan 14,2019
The total amount of ice in the Antarctic, if it all melted, would be enough to raise sea levels 57 metres.
By far, the most ice in Antarctica is concentrated in the east. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the world's largest, containing roughly half of Earth's freshwater.
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