Global warming threatens Antarctica's meteorites - The Washington Post

Antarctica is home to Earth’s largest concentration of meteorites — so many that over 60 percent of meteorite finds originate there. But global warming is endangering Antarctica’s meteorites, and a new analysis forecasts that close to three-quarters of the continent’s meteorites could disappear from the ice sheet surface by century’s end, making it nearly impossible to spot or retrieve the precious space rocks. The research, published in Nature Climate Change, used a machine-learning algorithm to project how Antarctic meteorites will …