Geoinformation and satellite data reveal increasing rate of global ice loss 02/01/2021 2 Minutes Read A recent study by a team of researchers led by the University of Leeds in the U.K. has shown that the rate of global ice loss is rapidly speeding up. The first-of-its-kind study analyzed satellite Earth Observation data from 1994 to 2017 to reveal a 65% increase in the rate of ice loss during the period. A total of 31 trillion tons of ice was lost during the survey period, triggered by the warming of the atmosphere and oceans and melting of polar ice sheets. The survey covered 215,000 mountain glaciers spread all over the world, polar ice sheets and ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica, and sea ice drifting around in the Arctic and Southern Oceans.