news revealing earth’s ice cover is in serious decline

http://www.skepticalscience.com/earths-ice-cover-in-serious-decline.html

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/05/ice-picks-five-pieces-of-ice-news-revealing-earth%E2%80%99s-ice-cover-is-in-serious-decline/#.U3ubTlYA4W8.facebook

20 May 2014 Roz Pidcock

Melting ice has filled the newspapers over the past couple of weeks, with a deluge of new research into how the planet's ice cover is being altered by climate change making the headlines.

Coming just a few days after research showing West Antarctic glaciers are in irreversible collapse, today's news that Antarctic ice melt has doubled in a decade was widely covered.

We've taken a look at several new papers that highlight the speed at which earth's vast ice sheets, glaciers and ice caps are diminishing. Put them all together, and it makes for a stark picture.

1. Antarctic ice melt is twice as fast as ten years ago ......

2. West Antarctic glaciers are collapsing, and it's "unstoppable" .....

3. The Greenland ice sheet could melt faster than scientists first thought ......

4. Other ice caps and glaciers in the northern hemisphere are melting faster too .....

5. Soot from forest fires contributed to unusually large Greenland surface melt in 2012 .....