The eastern two thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 metres. Most scientists had once thought this ice sheet was largely invulnerable to climate change, but not any more. And our new research, published in Nature, reveals the dire consequences if we were to awaken Antarctica’s sleeping giant.
...The world’s biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought
Chris Stokes, Durham University and Guy Paxman, Durham University