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Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever – ABC News
Glaciers are melting more quickly, losing 31 per cent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years ago, satellite measurements show.
Glaciers are melting more quickly, losing 31 per cent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years ago, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers.
Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers have been losing more than 298 billion metric tonnes of ice and snow per year since 2015, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature.
The annual melt rate from 2015 to 2019…
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