In June 2018, a scientific paper published in the British journal Nature made for sober reading – and an avalanche of international headlines. From 2012 to 2017, the Antarctic continent lost 219 billion tonnes of ice a year – three times the average rate pre-2012.
Just over a year later, another study by American and British researchers published in Nature Geoscience presented groundbreaking evidence that human-caused global warming is linked to melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
