New satellite photos from NASA's Earth Observatory show ice on the cap of Eagle Island has almost disappeared after less than 10 days of extreme heat.
“It’s more significant that these events are coming more frequently.“January 2020 was the hottest January scientists had ever witnessed, and Earth's poles are warming quicker than much of the rest of the planet. Two recent studies have sounded the alarm on what rising land and sea temperatures could mean for the continent's vast ice sheets.
A second study by Australian researchers in the PNAS journal, looked into the deep past to predict future sea-level rises.READ MOREMeasuring isotopes from volcanic ash in ice samples, the team identified a gap in the ice sheet record that indicated mass sea-level rise as temperatures warmed.
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