Scientists are alarmed by the appearance of thousands of blue lakes in Antarctica – BBC

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Scientists have found that thousands of blue lakes began to appear on the surface of Antarctic glaciers melt water that did not occur previously. These results researchers from the University of Durham came in an article published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters .

The researchers analyzed hundreds of satellite images and data of meteorological glacier Langhovde observations in eastern Antarctica and found that only from 2000 to 2013 in Antarctica appeared about 8 thousand. new lakes. Scientists suspect that the water of some of these lakes can seep under the surface, threatening the stability of the entire glacier.

It was previously thought that the ice in East Antarctica are not affected by global warming, so pay more attention to the changes taking place in the Antarctic Peninsula . It is known that the occurrence of these lakes has led to the melting of glaciers in Greenland, where in the period from 2011 to 2014 melted 1 trillion tons of ice

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