A Huge Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Three Times Faster Than Previously Thought | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/03/3598719/amundsen-sea-ice-melt
A West Antarctic ice sheet that is roughly the size of Texas is losing the amount of ice equivalent to Mount Everest every two years, representing a melt rate that has tripled over the last decade, according to new research to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Friday.
Antarctica contains two ice sheets: the East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets. The study released this week concerns the glaciers that flow into the Amundsen Sea, an embayment below the Antarctic Peninsula in West Antarctica.
