Recent human activity has intensified global warming, which could result in a mass melting of Antarctica, said Zoe Thomas, a research fellow at the University of New South Wales who was part of an international team of scientists that recently published a paper on Antarctic ice melting. The study showed the world could lose most of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which rests on the seabed and is fringed by floating ice, in a warmer world. "What we're seeing with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, that this starting of the melt, once we reach a certain threshold, will continue despite our efforts to stop it," she told Reuters. A wounded whale that lost part of one of its fins swims near Two Hummock Island, Antarctica, Feb 2, 2020. Thomas said that the only thing that would slow down the ice melting was if economies across the world began de-carbonising themselves.

Source: bd News24 February 19, 2020 06:56 UTC