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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 09:29 UTC

Tag: Joseph Levy

  • Thursday, July 25th 2013 - 02:51 UTC

    Coastal Antarctic permafrost melting faster than expected

    The big tell here is that the ice is vanishing — it's melting faster each time we measure,” said Levy

    For the first time, scientists have documented an acceleration in the melt rate of permafrost, or ground ice, in a section of Antarctica where the ice had been considered stable. The melt rates are comparable with the Arctic, where accelerated melting of permafrost has become a regularly recurring phenomenon, and the change could offer a preview of melting permafrost in other parts of a warming Antarctic continent.