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Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever
Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31 per cent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers.
Key points:
- Enough melt is flowing into the world’s rising oceans to put Switzerland under almost 7.2 metres of water each year, the study found
- Half the world’s glacial loss is coming from the United States and Canada
- The near-uniform melting “mirrors the global increase in temperature” and is from the burning of coal, oil and gas, researchers said
Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers are losing more than 298 billion metric tonnes of ice and snow per year…
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