{"id":2681,"date":"2026-04-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/why-is-antarcticas-mass-increasing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:00:00","slug":"why-is-antarcticas-mass-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/why-is-antarcticas-mass-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Antarctica\u2019s mass increasing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/04\/antarctica_s_snow_gains_and_ice_loss\/27237411-1-eng-GB\/Antarctica_s_snow_gains_and_ice_loss_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 \u2013 and scientists have now identified why. Research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) looked at factors affecting Antarctica\u2019s delicate environmental dynamics. Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 \u2013 and scientists have now identified why. Research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) looked at factors affecting Antarctica\u2019s delicate environmental dynamics. Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}