By Paul Seaburn

It turns out that Iceland is more green than icy while Greenland is more icy than green, but we could always count on Antarctica being an icy white … until now. A mysterious and massive area of green ice has appeared on satellite images and researchers are scrambling to explain it before it attracts boatloads of St. Patrick’s Day partiers.

The huge hunk of green Antarctic ice was spotted on March 5, 2017, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) camera on the Landsat 8 satellite and is located in the Granite Harbor near the Ross Sea bay of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. Multiple images indicate that the luminous green ice covers at least 1000 sq. km (650 sq. miles) and appears to be growing rapidly. It also seems to be more slushy than solid. The cause of the green color is not a mystery to Antarctic experts, but…