This Yale Environment 360 article discusses how a 4th of West Antarctica’s Ice Now Considered Unstable, Scientists Find.
Rising temperatures have sped up the melting of West Antarctica’s ice fivefold in the past 25 years, resulting in a quarter of the region’s glaciers being classified as unstable, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet have thinned by as much as 400 feet since 1992, with some of the most dramatic changes happening to the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. According to Earther, West Antarctica has shed enough ice over the past quarter-century to fill Lake Erie 12 times over.