A novel study reveals a significant decline in glaciers on a global scale
Published on February 20, 2025
Since 2000, the world’s glaciers have lost 5% of their initial volume, and 273 billion tonnes of ice are disappearing every year - the equivalent of 3 Olympic swimming pools per second. These are the results of an in-depth study of the global evolution of glaciers (excluding the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets) between 2000 and 2023, based for the first time on a combination of field measurements and satellite observations. This unprecedented study was carried out by the Glambie], made up (…)
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