Amidst the Ice & Cold

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent. It contains 90 percent of all of the ice on Earth in an area just under 1.5 times the size of the United States. But the southernmost continent is much more than a big block of ice

There have already been measurable impacts on the atmosphere from global climate change. Glaciers have shrunk, ice is breaking up faster on rivers and lakes, plant and animal ranges have changed and trees are flowering sooner. There are now consequences that scientists have expected in the past would result from global climate change: loss of sea ice, rapid increase in sea level, and longer, more extreme heat waves.