World Losing Ice 57 Percent Faster Than In the 1990s, Study Finds

Yale e360
Jan 28, 2021, 2:39 pm147 pts
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,…

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