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2. West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Wikipedia

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   A map of West Antarctica. The total volume of the entire Antarctic ice sheet is estimated at 26.92 million km 3 (6.46 million cu mi), [2] while the WAIS contains about 2.1 million km 3 (530,000 cu mi) in ice that is above the sea level, and ~1 million km 3 (240,000 cu mi) in ice that is below it. [20]

3. Antarctic ice sheet - Wikipedia

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   Because the East Antarctic ice sheet is over 10 times larger than the West Antarctic ice sheet and located at a higher elevation, it is less vulnerable to climate change than the WAIS. In the 20th century, EAIS had been one of the only places on Earth which displayed limited cooling instead of warming, even as the WAIS warmed by over 0.1 °C ...

4. West Antarctica - Wikipedia

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   The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names approved the name in 1962. West Antarctica is mostly covered by a massive ice sheet referred to as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. In recent decades, this ice sheet has shown signs of decreasing mass. [4] The geologic history of West Antarctica was summarized in a 2020 publication. [5]

5. Scientists discover an alarming change in Antarctica’s past ...

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   The West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise sea levels by about 5 meters – more than 16 feet — which would cause devastating flooding in coastal towns and cities around the world.

6. Climate change in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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   The West Antarctic ice sheet is likely to completely melt [17] [18] [19] unless temperatures are reduced by 2 °C (3.6 °F) below 2020 levels. [20] The loss of this ice sheet would take between 2,000 and 13,000 years, [21] [22] although several centuries of high greenhouse emissions could shorten this time to 500 years. [23]

7. Geology of Antarctica - Wikipedia

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   The frozen continent of Antarctica was the last continent humanity set foot on. The first documented landings made below the Antarctic Circle took place in 1820, when Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and the crew of the Vostok and Mirny, as part of the Russian Antarctic Expedition, made land at Peter I Island and Alexander Island.

8. Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point ...

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   The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way that scientific models used to project future sea level rise have not taken into account, suggesting current projections could be ...

9. 'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found - AOL

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   The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study. Using 50 different ...