Antarctica is rising

The continuous melting of ice caused Antarctica to move upward, the scientists announced.

New Hampshire reports Donald Argus, a scientist from the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), and colleagues using global positioning satellites data for 15 years to track Antarctica and continent. around the south pole of the globe. They found that parts of the mountain range called Ellsworth in the west of the continent rose about 5 mm each year. The annual speed of the other areas of the Antarctic is lower.

Antarctica lost about 200 billion tons of ice every year
because of climate change. Photo: xplore-expeditions.com.

Scientists believe that melting ice also causes Greenland, the world's largest ice island, to rise at 4 cm per year.

Climate change causes Antarctica to lose about 200 billion tons of ice annually, while Greenland lost about 300 billion tons.

The continents of the earth above magma - a mixture of molten rocks beneath the surface of the globe. So when Antarctic ice melts into water, the mass of this continent decreases and magma pushes it higher.