Sunday 3 April 2011

Melting ice-sheets fuelling sea level rise - warns NASA.

Melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could overtake mountain glaciers as the main contributors to rising sea levels, US scientists say.

A study lasting nearly 20 years has revealed that huge amounts of melted ice are pouring into the oceans...read more.

Melting glaciers

Mountain glaciers found to be melting at record rates...

"The glaciers have lost a lot less ice up until 30 years ago than had been thought. The real killer is that the rate of loss has gone up 100 times above the long-term average. It's scary," said Professor Glasser, who carried out the study with the University of Exeter and Stockholm University.