A novel research unveiled that Antarctic glaciers are losing a lot of ice as icy masses in the continent's west are turning into water. As per the research to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, in the course of last 21 years, the glacial masses have poured around 83 billion tons into the Amundsen Sea every year. With an objective to know the amount of ice loss in the Amundsen Sea embayment from 1992 to 2013, the study researchers assessed four sets of satellite estimates. Study's co-author Isabella Velicogna, a scientist with the University of California and NASA, affirmed that the ice loss is occurring at a rapid speed. Study researchers are quite concerned about the melting of the Pine Island ice sheet, west Antarctic's titan glacier because it does not have a floating shelf. Owing to which, the outflow takes place directly into the sea. Read more http://uncovercalifornia.com/content/22592-west-antarctic-ice-rapidly-melting-study
