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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NASA satellites reveal that the surface of Greenland’s massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area. NASA has been monitoring the Greenland melt for 30 years, and they’re calling this one "unprecedented," partly because it’s so large and also because it occurred at the COLDEST part of the country, Summit station. The thawed area went from 40% of the ice sheet to 97% in just four days, starting on July 8th.
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We worry about fighting off an alien invasion in the future, but the biggest invasion of new creatures may be right here on Earth RIGHT NOW. We’ve warned you before that as the world heats up and glaciers melt, dangerous microbes may return to life. Russian scientists agree and want to investigate the gigantic Lake Vostok in Antarctica that is now hidden under over two miles of ice. The creatures in that lake have been locked away in the dark and cold for 20 million years.
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Is the horror of the "Creature From the Black Lagoon" in our future? As our planet warms and our glaciers melt, the world that is now locked away in permafrost will come alive. They’ll be tiny, so they won’t be obviously menacing, but they WILL start churning out greenhouse gases, making global warming worse.
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