Faster West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting unavoidable: study
Paris (AFP) Oct 23, 2023
The melting of West Antarctica's ice shelves is likely to substantially accelerate in coming decades even if the world meets ambitions to limit global warming, according to research Monday, warning it would drive rising sea levels. Researchers warned that humans had "lost control" of the fate of thinning ice shelves - frozen ridges floating on the fringes of the main ice sheet that play a s