Antarctica Gained 200 Billion Tons of Ice During Recent Two-Year Period, Surprising Scientists

By Andy Corbley – Good News Network

Antarctica was in the news this week in a surprising way: it was gaining ice, rather than losing it.

While Antarctic ice sheet loss has averaged around 147 gigatons per year for the period between 2010 and 2020, a remarkable reversal occurred at the opening of this decade.

Writing in China Earth Sciences, researchers at Tongji University, led by Dr. Wei Wang and Professor Yunzhong Shen, reported that East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from 2021 to 2023.