Antarctic ice sheet sees temporary mass gain: study

NAMPA / Xinhua

2026-08-23

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A new international study shows that Antarctica's ice sheet gained 695 billion metric tonnes of mass between 2021 and 2023, slowing down its long-term ice loss against the backdrop of climate warming. Researchers from China, the United States, Hungary and Japan found that the ice gain was the largest recorded in nearly two decades of satellite observations. They believe an atmospheric phenomenon thousands of kilome......

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