Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

By Bob Berwyn

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ice cap still seemed securely frozen.

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