Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

East Antarctica's ice is melting much faster than we thought — East Antarctica’s ice is melting much faster than we thought

By Michael Marshall

Two huge glaciers in east Antarctica have been losing mass rapidly since 2002. The finding means that our forecasts for sea level rise this century will have to be revised upward, but it’s not clear by how much.

It is also further evidence that the ice in east Antarctica, which had long been thought to be stable even in the face of climate change, is in fact melting.

So far, most of the ice lost from Antarctica has come from west Antarctica – in particular …