Glaciers Shrinking at Record Pace, 7tn Tons Lost Since 2000

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s.

- Associated Press

NEW YORK:

The world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons annually from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 346 billion tons annually over the next decade, according to the study in this week's journal Nature.

And the last few years, the melt has accelerated even more, hitting a record 604 billion tons lost in 2023, the last year analyzed. The study drew on an international effort that included 233 estimates of changes in glacier weight.