Antarctic Ice Sheet May Be Less Vulnerable Than Previously Thought

Antarctic Ice Sheet May Be Less Vulnerable Than Previously Thought

To understand how warming could impact Antarctica, experts are looking to the past, to a time more than 100,000 years ago when the Antarctic was around 3 degrees C warmer than it is now. A new study finds that the West Antarctic ice sheet did not completely collapse during this period, as prior modeling had suggested, offering some hope for the future.

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