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The world’s glaciers are melting faster, scientists say Sustainability Times May 4, 2021 – Sustainability Times
Between 2000 and 2004 glaciers lost 227 gigatons of ice a year; between 2015 and 2019 they lost 298 gigatons a year.
Between 2000 and 2004 glaciers lost 227 gigatons of ice a year; between 2015 and 2019 they lost 298 gigatons a year.Glaciers have been melting worldwide as a result of higher temperatures from climate change, but just how fast they have been in retreat should be a cause for concern.
In the largest-scale study of its kind, an international team of researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Toulouse looked at all the world’s 220,000 or so glaciers, excluding the ice sheets on Greenland and…
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