![Researchers from UCI and NASA JPL recently conducted an assessment of 40 years’ worth of ice mass balance in Antarctica, finding accelerating deterioration of its ice cover.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20190114_nu1-300x169-1.png)
Antarctica Losing Six Times More Ice Mass Annually Now Than 40 Years Ago
Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017.
Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017.
The study used machine-learning to analyze more than 700,000 Landsat images to map changing global distribution of intertidal areas over a 30-year period.