Why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic

PHYSorg
Jul 6, 2026, 12:00 pm40 pts
East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 feet) were it to fully melt. Yet scientists have been puzzled for decades about how and why this ice sheet formed.

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