Another climate-change nightmare: 91 new volcanoes beneath Antarctica’s ice

Antarctica has been having a rough time of it lately, you may have heard.

You know — greenhouse gases, warming oceans, trillion-ton icebergs breaking off the continent like a middle-aged man losing hair in the sink. Not the best century for the old South Pole.

And now it turns out Antarctica has problems we didn't even know about. Deep problems. Volcanoes-under-the-ice problems, which doesn't sound healthy.

University of Edinburgh researchers on Monday announced the discovery of 91 previously unknown volcanoes under west Antarctica. They do not sound nearly as alarmed as, say, Quartz, which called the possibilities terrifying.

Full story at http://wapo.st/2i9Fcsn

Source: Washington Post

 

 

 

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