Harvard Study: Melting Polar Ice Is Physically Warping the Planet

As ice melts, the crust seems to warp for hundreds of miles.

As rising temperatures melt Arctic ice at an alarming rate, the resulting rise in the sea level stands to

last month. In the study, Harvard scientists discovered that the crust rebounds outward after the ice on top of it melts away, but doesn't always return to a perfectly spherical shape.

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