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Antarctica’s snow gains and ice loss
The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 – and scientists have now identified why. Research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) looked at factors affecting Antarctica’s delicate environmental dynamics. Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.
The research was produced as part of the Processes for Ice Sheets in Climate models and Earth Observation project, which is funded by ESA’s Climate Change Initiative. The project’s findings were published in February in Nature Communications Earth & Environment journal.
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