The analysis of ice cores provides first concrete evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet suffered rapid ice loss around the end of the last Ice Age.
Antarctic ice shelves incurred significant ice loss between 1997 and 2001. Click to read more. Antarctica is a vast icy continent containing massive chunks of ice because of a prehistoric glaciation, which scientists predict to have taken place approximately 35 million years ago.
The fact that such a large system could be unknown until now just goes to show how much we still need to learn about the continent, lead researcher Dr. Christine Dow from the University of Waterloo