On an forbidding shoreline at the bottom of the world, the prodigious ice sheets of West Antarctica dead-end in the Amundsen sea. For decades, scientists have been monitoring this interface of rock, ice and ocean, in order to understand how quickly it’ll retreat as the planet warms up. A new study shows that three of the Amundsen sea’s frozen gateways are melting away faster than we realized, raising the specter of an ice sheet collapse that could trigger several feet of global sea level rise.
Source: Gizmodo – These Antarctic Glaciers Are Melting at a ‘Staggering’ Rate