Climate Change In Antarctica 2024. The west antarctic ice sheet is particularly vulnerable to climate change, because the land under it is below sea level and slopes downward. In march 2022, antarctica experienced an extraordinary heatwave.

But since then, the antarctic peninsula has warmed rapidly, and a new study shows that mosses, along with some lichen, liverworts and associated algae, have colonized more than 4.6 square miles. They say a floating section at the front of thwaites.