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Patrick Pester

NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?

A snow-covered glacier meets the sea, with rocky mountains visible in the background.

Antarctica has gained ice in recent years, despite increasing average global temperatures and climate change, a new study finds.

Using data from NASA satellites, researchers from Tongji University in Shanghai tracked changes in Antarctica's ice sheet over more than two decades. The overall trend is one of substantial ice loss on the continent, but from 2021 to 2023, Antarctica gained some of that lost ice back.

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