Greenland & Antarctica, earth’s polar ice caps are melting at an alarming pace which might increase the sea level much sooner than expected.
A study spread over 18 years has revealed many concerning facts regarding this meltdown.
Together, Greenland and Antarctica, are adding an average of 475 billion tons (2.2 trillion pounds) of water to the oceans, compared to 402 billion tons by mountain glaciers, the research team reports, and the ice sheet pace is accelerating at the rate of 36.3 billion tons a year.
Pictorial Evidence of Increasing Melting Process
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