What will happen if the Antarctic glaciers melt
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,000,000 square kilometers (5,400,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages 1.9 km (1.2 mi; 6,200 ft) in thickness, which extends to all but the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Today we are seeing the first signs of global warming on Antarctica: the large glaciers are destroyed, there are new lakes and the soil loses its ice cover.
There are many mountains under the ice. In the future, in the Antarctic can live people. Already, there are many forms of plant life, mushrooms, etc. Tundra began to appear in Antarctica and scientists are confident that soon will begin to grow trees.
So, scientists have calculated that after the melting of glaciers, sea level rise of nearly 60 meters. And it very much and would amount to a global catastrophe.
This is the sad scenario of melting glaciers. Glaciers are melting in one place and are formed in another now. We believe the best)))
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