CBS: Antarctic ice can be up to 2.6 miles thick, yet researchers say that the continent of Antarctica is rising unusually fast due to climate change.
Researchers told Live Science on Friday that a combination of climate change and hot rock miles underneath the earth’s surface flowing much faster than expected has caused the continent to rise in a similar fashion to mattresses decompressing after people get off of them.
Grace Nield, a geophysicist at Newcastle University in England, told Live Science......
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