Melting Glaciers and Less Fresh Water
Impact on Life at the Coast and Inland
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8 min readJun 1, 2021
Researchers at ETH Zurich scoured satellite images from the last 20 years and recently reported the planet is losing 267 gigatonnes of ice each year from its glaciers. The rate of loss has accelerated from 227 gigatonnes per year in the early 2000s to 298 gigatonnes per year by 2019. Cynics point out we are simply gaining more…
