Antarctica And Greenland Are Losing Thousands Of Gigatons of Ice — That's A Lot
A new NASA satellite is providing a detailed look at how much polar ice is melting, raising sea levels around the world.
As the climate has warmed, Antarctica and Greenland have lost enough ice in the last 16 years to fill Lake Michigan, according to results from a new NASA mission.
Put another way, more than 5,000 gigatons of ice has melted (a gigaton equals one billion metric tons), which drove up sea levels around the world.
The findings
