World’s Mountain Glaciers Melting Faster: Study

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Seven trillion tonnes of mountain ice have been lost since 2000. Glaciers are melting the fastest in Alaska, while central Europe’s smaller glaciers, like those in the Alps, have shrunk the most proportionally. Switzerland with like 3 percent glacier loss in a single summer by volume.

The world’s mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever before under the impact of climate change, shrinking at more than twice the speed of the early 2000s. That is according to a new comprehensive study published in Nature on Wednesday by a team of international scientists.

They found that seven trillion tonnes of mountain ice have been lost since 2000. Glaciers are melting the fastest in Alaska, while central Europe’s smaller glaciers, like those in the Alps, have shrunk the most proportionally. Switzerland with like 3 percent glacier loss in a single summer by volume.

The study said that there has been no increase in the winter snowfall to compensate for this. Mountain glaciers, which are frozen rivers of ice, act as a freshwater resource for millions of people worldwide. If they melted entirely, they would release enough water to raise global sea levels by 32cm.

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Scientists say an average of 273 billion tonnes of ice is being lost each year, equivalent to 30 years of water consumption by the world population.