A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in irreversible decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pYHMx5bN8
FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/12may_noturningback/