Surprise jump in Antarctica's glacier ice level.

As climate change continues to batter the world with extreme weather events occurring from the US to India, there is a surprising new trend observed on one end of the planet - Antarctica.

Scientists have noted a surprising jump in the Antarctic ice for the first time in decades. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission and its successor, GRACE-FO (GRACE Follow-On) satellites have observed a rise in the ice mass across the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The study led by Dr. Wang and Prof. Shen at Tongji University has found that between 2021 and 2023, the ice sheet experienced a record-breaking increase in overall mass.

Antarctica experienced a moderate increase in sea ice until 2015, followed by a sharp decline starting in 2016.

Tongji University researchers say satellite gravimetry data shows that from 2011 to 2020, the Antarctic Ice Sheet lost 142 gigatons of ice per year. That trend flipped between 2021 and 2023 when the ice sheet allegedly gained about 108 gigatons of ice per year.

From 2002 to 2010, Antarctica's ice sheet was losing about 74 billion tons of ice per year. From 2011 to 2020, the loss nearly doubled to about 142 billion tons per year, mainly because of faster ice melting in West Antarctica and parts of East Antarctica.