Antarctica's Underwater Ice Retreating Five Times Faster Than Expected, Study Says
At a Glance Between 2010 and 2016, the warming Southern Ocean has melted 565 square miles of underwater ice.That's as much as 10 percent of the continent's eight largest glaciers.The findings are disturbing because should theice recession continue, there could be atotal collapse of the world's largest ice sheet. Antarctica's underwater footprint is retreating five timesfaster than expected, with warming water melting as much as 10 percent of the continent's eight largest glaciers, a new study says. Researchers from the...