Glacier melt is speeding up, raising seas: global study-550023
Glacier melt is speeding up, raising seas: global study AFP 29th April, 2021 10:46:50 Nearly all of the world’s glaciers are losing mass at an ever increasing pace, contributing to more than a fifth of global sea level rise this century, according to unprecedented research released Wednesday. Glaciers — vast bodies of frozen water that sit above ground — have been melting fast since the middle of the 20th century, but until now the full extent of ice loss had only been partially understood. An international team of researchers has for the first time observed all of Earth’s some 220,00...
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