Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever

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This September 2017 photo provided by researcher Brian Menounos shows the Klinaklini glacier in British Columbia, Canada. The glacier and the adjacent icefield lost about 15 gigatons of water from 2000-2019, Menounos says. And the rate of loss accelerated over the last five years of the study. (Brian Menounos via AP)

FILE - This May 9, 2020 file photo shows the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. The U.S. Forest Service says the glacier, often reached by trail or by crossing Mendenhall Lake, is retreating. According to a study released on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 in the journal Nature, the world's 220,000 glaciers are melting faster now than in the 2000s. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

FILE - This Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 file photo shows the Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska, which according to National Park Service research has retreated approximately 1.25 miles over the past 200 years. According to a study released on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 in the journal Nature, the world's 220,000 glaciers are melting faster now than in the 2000s. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Melting Glaciers

This September 2017 photo provided by researcher Brian Menounos shows the Klinaklini glacier in British Columbia, Canada. The glacier and the adjacent icefield lost about 15 gigatons of water from 2000-2019, Menounos says. And the rate of loss accelerated over the last five years of the study. (Brian Menounos via AP)MoreBY SETH BORENSTEINWed, April 28, 2021, 8:01 AM·3 min read

Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31% more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers.

Scientists blame human-caused climate change.

Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers are losing more than 328 billion tons (298 billion metric tons) of ice and snow per year since 2015, according to a study in Wednesday’sjournal Nature. That’s enough melt flowing into the…

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