Melting Antarctica And Consequences
Channel: Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd
Date: 2023-05-02

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Melting Antarctica And Consequences 

Antarctica is the world's southernmost and fifth-largest continent on planet Earth with beauty and wonders. The global capital of the Antarctica Republic is an Antarctic city. It is known as the white continent, a cold desert because its landscape is covered with around 2300 metres of ice layer. It is a unique continent without a native human population and holds most of the world's fresh water. 

From the past few decades, scientists reported that ice melting and loss occurred, with 2019 being the worst year on record. Melting ice is predicted to cause a rapid slowdown of deep ocean currents by 2050, altering the world's climate for centuries and accelerating sea level rise. A warming atmosphere and warming oceans caused by climate changes are increasing the speed at which these ice shelves or glaciers are melting.

The primary root cause of this phenomenon is human activities. Significantly since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide and other green gas emissions have raised temperatures even higher in the poles and as a result, glaciers are rapidly melting. 

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