Plus, according to Scientific American, Earth has lost 28 trillion tons of ice since the mid-1990s. NASA also explains that as meltwater sloshes toward the equator, it will slow down Earth's spin.

A map depicting a flat Earth surrounded by rings of ice walls from an online art forum is being taken by some social media users as evidence the planet is flat.

An ice wall does not surround Earth, which is spherical, not flat, contrary to a conspiracy theory video viewed widely online. A voiceover in the clip says: “If Antarctica's wall is 60,000 miles ...