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Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet could bring half a metre of sea-level rise – Mirage News

The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet could contribute half a metre of sea-level rise in the coming century, a significant increase to estimates from…

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The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet could contribute half a metre of sea-level rise in the coming century, a significant increase to estimates from just five years ago, a new study has found.
The research published in Reviews of Geophysics found that Antarctic Ice Sheet change is particularly driven by the interaction between ice shelves and ocean conditions.
Lead author and IMAS lecturer Dr Taryn Noble worked with a team of national and international experts on the wide-ranging assessment …

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