Glaciers in Antarctica began to thaw twice quicker

Scientists of National administration office on aeronautics and space research from South State of California found out that thawing of glaciers Antarctica goes much quicker, than assumed earlier. New research shows that because of large-scale destruction of a glacier substantial increase of a sea level can happen in the next decades. Work is published in Nauchny zhurnal Nature. The ice cover in Antarctica annually increases approximately by two thousand cubic kilometers as a result of a precipitation, approximately the same volume of ice is lost because of dumping of firm ice to the ocean. Research of scientists showed that glaciers lose weight the accelerated rates, thereby raising...