January 26, 2021 The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet has been speeding up, by 65% since the 1990s, a survey of global ice loss using European Space Agency satellite data reveals. A research team – the first to carry out a survey of global ice loss using satellite data – has discovered that the rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up. The findings also reveal that 28 trillion metric tons (tonnes or 31 trillion U.S. tons) of ice was lost between 1994 and 2017, equivalent to a sheet of ice 330 feet (100 meters) thick covering the whole of the U.K. (approximately the size of Michigan or Wyoming).