Agence France-Presse: Deep, cold ocean currents from the North Atlantic blunt the effect of global warming on Antarctica and slow the rise of sea levels, according to a study published Monday.
This icy insulation of the snowy continent -- covered by a sheath of ice up to four kilometres (2.5 miles) thick -- could last for centuries, the research published in Nature Geoscience said.
That's good news to hundreds of millions of people in low-lying regions who are threatened by seas set to rise up to a metre by the...