- Pace of melting of ice in Antarctica doubles over the last two years, climate change main reason, sea levels going up, satellite images have shown
- East Antarctica is also shedding ice now, melting of ice in western part of Antarctica as per latest studies is unlikely to stop, to continue for centuries
- Melting of ice in Western Antarctica to result in increase in sea levels by about 4 meters, this may result in submerging of low laying coastal areas across world
- Data on melting ice gathered from European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 satellite, launched in 2010 and carried by journal Geophysical Research Letters
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/antarctic-ice-loss-has-doubled-study/article6031258.ece
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