{"id":286822,"date":"2025-04-21T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/hidden-antarctic-lakes-could-supercharge-sea-level-rise\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:03:17","slug":"hidden-antarctic-lakes-could-supercharge-sea-level-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/hidden-antarctic-lakes-could-supercharge-sea-level-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Antarctic lakes could supercharge sea level rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beneath the great, white expanse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, a mysterious realm of streams and lakes lies out of sight. Much about this hidden water world<\/a> remains poorly understood. But a new study suggests that if scientists continue to overlook it, they might greatly underestimate global sea level rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factoring this subglacial water into computer simulations could boost projections of sea level rise over the next two centuries by about two meters<\/a>, researchers report April 7 in Nature Communications<\/em>. For context, scientists estimate that climate warming has raised sea levels by about 0.2 meters<\/a> over the last century.<\/p>\n\n\n