Now, it looks like the continent's ice sheet is growing.

现在, 看起来这片大陆的盖正呈现增加趋势。

Mars, like Earth, has polar ice caps.

和地球一样，火星也有极地盖。

It causes the ice to advance and retreat every year.

使得盖面积每都在扩大和缩小。

Ice keels as long as 150 feet extend down from the ice sheets.

长达150英尺，从盖延伸下来。

Indeed, sea ice cover in the Arctic is melting faster than expected.

实际上，北极的海盖融化速度比预期的要快。

Scientists have declared a climate emergency in response to the melting ice caps.

科学已宣布气候紧急状况，以应对融化的盖。

Antarctica has a huge thick ice crust and underneath there is this liquid lake.

南极有着厚重的盖，下面是液态的。

It is the world's second-largest body of ice, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

它是仅次于南极盖的世界第二大盖。

Melting ice caps and rising sea levels.

融化的盖导致海平面升高。

That glacier is holding back several other glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

那条川阻碍了南极西部盖上的其他几个川。

" The polar ice caps are going to melt, " she wrote.

“极地盖即将融化，”她写道。

The researchers report finding a large ancient landscape buried under the continent's ice sheet.

研究人员报告称，他们在这块大陆的盖下发现了一处巨大的古代景观。

But climate change is melting ice sheets and changing rainfall patterns.

但气候变化正在让盖融化并改变降雨模式。

Ice sheets at the equator could mean only one thing.

赤道地区存在盖只能意味着一件事。

Melting Antarctic ice sheets have a global effect.

南极盖融化会产生全球性的反应。

Ellesmere also lost its two St. Patrick Bay ice caps this summer.

今夏天，埃尔斯米尔岛上的两个圣帕特里克湾盖也消失了。

The ice sheet is melting, of course. But just how much, compared to the past?

当然，盖正在融化。 但与过去相比，有多少呢?

Images from the Danish territory show melting across 56 percent of the ice sheet.

从丹麦领土上看，盖的56%都在融化。

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet holds the majority of world's glacier ice.

东南极盖拥有世界上大部分的川。

The ice grows at an extraordinary rate, advancing two and a half miles a day.

盖的面积以非凡的速度扩大，一天扩大2.5英里。