Antarctica’s glaciers have been making headlines during the past year, and not in a good way. Whether it’s a massive ice shelf facing imminent risk of collapse, glaciers in the West Antarctic past the point of no return, or new threats to East Antarctic ice, it’s all been rather gloomy.
And now I’m afraid there’s more bad news: a new study published in the journal Science, led by a team of my colleagues and me from the University of Bristol, has observed a sudden increase of ice loss in a previously stable part of Antarctica.
The Antarctic Peninsula. Wikimedia Commons
