The antarctic ice cap can be less vulnerable to collapse than expected

A major ice cream tray in Antarctic seems to have survived a period of hot temperatures more than 120,000 years ago, which indicates that the glacial cap of Western Antarctica may not be as vulnerable as we thought of the complete collapse caused by climate change – a worse situation which could increase sea level per meter. But great uncertainties remain.

“This is good news and that's bad news,” says Eric Wolff At the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. “We did not have the worst case. But I can't …