New study casts doubt on how much sea levels may rise from collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet

Environmental News Network: A new study by scientists in the UK and France has found that Antarctic ice sheet collapse will have serious consequences for sea level rise over the next two hundred years, though not as much as some have suggested. This study, published this week in the journal Nature, uses an ice-sheet model to predict the consequences of unstable retreat of the ice, which recent studies suggest has begun in West Antarctica. An international team of researchers, including a scientist from British Antarctic......

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