Greenland isn’t the only place where glaciers are in trouble: While the TOP of the Earth is melting, the BOTTOM of the Earth–the Antarctic–is in trouble too. The polar regions are the most sensitive places on Earth to climate change, so what happens in Antarctica affects the entire Earth, in ways that we have yet to completely understand.
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It’s like a scene out of a sci-fi movie–thousands, possibly millions, of king crabs are marching through icy, deep-sea waters and up the Antarctic slope. We’ve had invasions of ants, stinkbugs and (most recently) bedbugs, but these critters are swarming the beaches of Antarctica, a place where they haven’t been seen for hundreds, thousands–or even millions–of years.
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For 15 million years, a frozen lake has been hidden deep beneath Antarctica’s frozen crust, possibly concealing prehistoric or unknown (and perhaps dangerous) life. (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Now Russian scientists are on the getting ready to discover its secrets.
The Russians have been drilling through the ice for weeks in a race to reach the bottom before the end of the Arctic summer. In CNews, Alissa de Carbonnel quotes polar researcher Alexei Turkeyev as saying, "There’s only a bit left to go."
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?and it’s our fault – No matter how cold this winter has been, the truth is: The world is getting warmer. Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica?the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?has actually been getting colder. But new research shows that’s not true?the whole earth is warming up, and we can’t blame it on sunspots: Alas, it’s our fault.
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