World Losing Ice 57 Percent Faster Than In the 1990s, Study Finds – Yale Environment 360

The world has lost an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice since the mid-1990s as rising global temperatures have sped up the melting of sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers, according to a new study published in the journal The Cryosphere. The annual melt rate has jumped 57 percent in the past three decades, the research found, from 800 billion metric tons per year in the 1990s to 1.2 trillion tons today.
It was a surprise to see such a large increase in just 30 years, lead author Thomas Slater,…

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