Asia is the world’s fourth most forested continent….Continents Of The World By Forest Cover.

The eight-nation team of EDEN ISS researchers chose to grow “high-water-content, pick-and-eat-plants,” Bamsey says, “things that can’t normally be stored for long periods of time.” The crops include lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, swiss chard, and herbs — basil, chives, cilantro and mint.

No-one lives in Antarctica indefinitely in the way that they do in the rest of the world. It has no commercial industries, no towns or cities, no permanent residents. The only “settlements” with longer term residents (who stay for some months or a year, maybe two) are scientific bases.

Antarctica is known for being the highest, driest, coldest and windiest continent on earth. Although there are no native Antarcticans and no permanent residents or citizens of Antarctica, many people do live in Antarctica each year.

Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world. Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time.

15 USA Cities That Will Be Underwater By 2050 (10 Already On The Ocean Floor)

1. 1 Atlantis. via Conspiracy Feed.
2. 2 New York, New York. via STA Tours.
3. 3 Honolulu, Hawaii. via TravelZoo.
4. 4 Port Royal, Jamaica. via NatGeo.
5. 5 Hoboken, New Jersey.
6. 6 Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
7. 7 Underwater: Thonis-Heracleion.
8. 8 San Diego, California.

If the ice sheet were to melt completely–a process that could take as little as 500 years according to some models–global sea levels could rise by as much as 20 feet, inundating islands and coastal areas worldwide.

If all the ice covering Antarctica , Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet). The ocean would cover all the coastal cities. And land area would shrink significantly. But many cities, such as Denver, would survive.

Even if we significantly curb emissions in the coming decades, more than a third of the world’s remaining glaciers will melt before the year 2100. When it comes to sea ice, 95% of the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic is already gone.

Florida’s high point is 345 feet above sea level, the lowest of all fifty states. Thus it will never go completely underwater, even if all the ice sheets and glaciers on the planet melt, since a total meltdown of all the ice sheets glaciers would raise sea level 212 feet (65 meters).

The reasons for this are not fully understood, but suggestions include the climatic effects on ocean and atmospheric circulation of the ozone hole, and/or cooler ocean surface temperatures as the warming deep waters melt the ice shelves.

The Short Answer: Both the Arctic (North Pole) and the Antarctic (South Pole) are cold because they don’t get any direct sunlight. However, the South Pole is a lot colder than the North Pole.

According to climate models, rising global temperatures should cause sea ice in both regions to shrink. But observations show that ice extent in the Arctic has shrunk faster than models predicted, and in the Antarctic it has been growing slightly.

Antarctic Ice Sheet

The vast majority, almost 90 percent, of Earth’s ice mass is in Antarctica, while the Greenland ice cap contains 10 percent of the total global ice mass.

Antarctica

How old is glacier ice?

• The age of the oldest glacier ice in Antarctica may approach 1,000,000 years old.
• The age of the oldest glacier ice in Greenland is more than 100,000 years old.
• The age of the oldest Alaskan glacier ice ever recovered (from a basin between Mt. Bona and Mt. Churchill) is about 30,000 years old.

Ross Ice Shelf

The buried glacier is allegedly the oldest on earth with an age of more than 8 million years; that would be almost ten times older than ice currently being cored from the Antarctic ice sheets.

Iceland

Pakistan has more glaciers than almost anywhere on Earth.

Blue is the color of pure glacier ice, compact with few air bubbles, since the air is squeezed out from the weight of the ice. Pure ice has the properties of minerals. Like sapphires, glacial ice reflects the blue colors of the light spectrum, so beautiful blue color reaches our eyes.