Antarctica’s once sleepy ice sheets have awoken. That's bad.

Antarctica — home to the greatest ice sheets on Earth — isn't just melting significantly faster than it was decades ago. Great masses of ice that scientists once presumed were largely immune to melting are losing ample ice into the sea. 

In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers illustrate that the ice-clad continent is losing more than six times as much ice as it was in the 1980s. A "major contributor," the scientists emphasize, are the glaciers in East Antarctica, a place long overshadowed by the rapidly melting glaciers of West Antarctica. They found East Antarctica has contributed about 20 percent of the melting in the last 10 years — which is no small amount. Read more...

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