Antarctica's Melting Has Hit A Dangerous Level & It's Losing Ice Thrice As Fast In Last 5 Years

An international team of scientists released a telling report on the rate at which Antarctica -- earth's only continent that's completely covered by ice -- is losing its ice cover, thanks to unprecedented level of global warming caused by human activity.

And the news is anything but good. In fact, it's downright scary and concerns all of us, because Antarctica's ice melt can cause a catastrophic rise in global sea levels.According to the scientific journal, Nature, a team of 84 researchers from 42 global organizations presented their findings of study on Antarctica's ice melt between 2012 and 2017.
The report claims that just in the last five years, Antarctica's ice sheet has shrunk and it has lost 219 billion tons of ice every single year from 2012 to 2017, which amounts to triple the rate of ice melt before 2012.Not just that, but between 1992 and 2017, Antarctica's ice loss has directly resulted to about 1 centimetre rise in global sea level -- forty percent of that overall sea level rise happened in just the last five years between 2012 and 2017.