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World’s glaciers melting faster: study – The West Australian
Glaciers around the world are melting faster, losing 31 per cent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to a major new study.
Nearly all of the world’s glaciers are losing mass and it’s happening at an accelerated pace, a major new study shows.
The study in the science journal Nature provides one of the most wide-ranging overviews yet of ice mass loss from about 220,000 glaciers around the world, a major source of sea level rise.
Using high-resolution imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite from between 2000 and 2019, a group of international scientists found that glaciers, with the exception of the Greenland and Antarctic…
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