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Published online 19 May 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050516-10
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East Antarctica puts on weight
Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise.
Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice.
A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice - enough to reduce the oceans' rise by 0.
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