When viewed from space, a very rude glacier in Antarctica was caught stealing ice from its neighbor as it melted. In a new paper published in The Cryosphere journal, researchers led by the United Kingdom's University of Leeds explained that one West Antarctica glacier has been engaging in "ice piracy," as they call it, essentially bulking up while its neighbors thin due to melting. Using satellite imagery taken between the years 2005 and 2022, the environmental researchers were surprised to find that although three glaciers — Kohler East, Pope, and Smith — had begun to thin 51 percent faster per year, […]