Climate change and global warming are already beginning to cause ill-effects around the planet, from disrupting ecosystems to causing more volcanic eruptions and making soils arid, according to news.softpedia.com. But probably these phenomena bring about their worse effects in polar regions. While, in the North, they heat up the Arctic and Greenland, in the South, they cause more and more ice spreads, such as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), to melt, and further contribute to their ill-effects. In a new study, researchers looked at how these trends could make things even worse in the near future, ScienceDaily reports. more »