13 June, 2018 by Nicholas O'Flaherty
Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade, accodring to the most definitive figures yet. Earth's largest ice sheet Antarctica lost 219 billion tons of ice annually in 2012 - 2017. This is approximately triple the 73 billion-ton melt rate of the previous decade. And prior to that decade, from 1992 through 1997, Antarctica lost 49 billion tons of ice annually.
The findings are from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise which involves 80 scientists from NASA and the ESA.