Tag: Antarctica

NASA says Antarctica is losing 147 gigatons of ice a year. With 26,500,000 gigatons of ice in the continent, this is an annual loss of 0.0005%. At the current ice melt it will all be gone in about 200,000 years.

More than 24 cargo vessels are stuck in Russia’s Arctic ice, waiting for ice-breakers to come to their rescue, after an inaccurate forecast from the country’s Met Office. It's climate change Jim, but not as we know it.