Hundreds of Meltwater Streams Found Flowing Across Antarctica

Huge swaths of Antarctica are awash in draining meltwater during the summer months, the first-ever continent-wide survey of meltwater shows.Although past studies revealed that portions of Antarctica's Western Peninsula were melting at an alarming rate, most scientists believed the rest of the continent did not face extensive melting during Antarctica's ephemeral summer months."This is not in the future — this is widespread now, and has been for decades," lead author Jonathan Kingslake, a g