Climate change: World’s glaciers melting at accelerating rate – Yahoo News Australia

Klinaklini Glacier in Canada: There is now far more certainty about what is happening
The world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate, according to a comprehensive new study.
A French-led team assessed the behaviour of nearly all documented ice streams on the planet.
The researchers found them to have lost almost 270 billion tonnes of ice a year over the opening two decades of the 21st Century.
The meltwater produced now accounts for about a fifth of global sea-level rise, the scientists…

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