A dazzling sight of blinding ice runs forever along this extreme northern part of Antarctica, hiding an unseen battle below that fights to reshape Earth.
Ice sheets are slowly thawing as water eats away at their core, eroding them where they graze the oceans. Slowly thawing ice is pouring water into the sea, at 130 billions tons of ice per year for the past decade, NASA satellite calculations reveal. This is enough to fill more than 1.3 million Olympic swimming pools, and the rate of thawing is only accelerating.
Ice melt in the region could push sea levels up 10 feet in the worst-case scenario, causing recurving of heavily populated coastlines worldwide in a century or two.
http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/antarctica-glaciers-melting-climate-change
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