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

现在, 看起来这片大陆冰盖正呈现增加趋势。

28. What does the latest information reveal about the West Antarctic ice sheet?

问题28. 最新信息揭露了南极西部冰盖什么？

Mars, like Earth, has polar ice caps.

和球一样，火星也有极冰盖。

It causes the ice to advance and retreat every year.

使得冰盖面积每年都在扩大和缩小。

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

冰骨长达150英尺，从冰盖延伸下来。

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

实际上，北极海冰盖融化速度比预期要快。

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

科学家已宣布气候紧急状况，以应对融化冰盖。

Could one of its moons harbor life beneath its icy crust?

它其中一个卫星会有生命生存在冰盖下吗？

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

它是仅次于南极冰盖世界第二大冰盖。

Melting ice caps and rising sea levels.

融化冰盖导致海平面升高。

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

那条冰川阻碍了南极西部冰盖上其他几个冰川。

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

“极冰盖即将融化，”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，他在这块大陆冰盖下发现了一处巨大古代景观。

The study said Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers have been melting.

该研究称，格陵兰岛冰盖和冰川一直在融化。

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

但气候变化正在让冰盖融化并改变降雨模式。

Ice sheets at the equator could mean only one thing.

赤道区存在冰盖只能意味着一件事。

Melting Antarctic ice sheets have a global effect.

南极冰盖融化会产生全球性反应。

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

今年夏天，埃尔斯米尔岛上两个圣帕特里克湾冰盖也消失了。

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

当然，冰盖正在融化。 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，冰盖56%都在融化。