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âWe need to act nowâ: Study reveals glaciers melting at unprecedented pace
âA doubling of the thinning rates in 20 years for glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica tells us we need to change the way we live,â the studyâs lead author said.
Researchers warned of the need for urgent climate action as a study published Wednesday revealed that the world’s mountain glaciers are melting at an unprecedented pace, with glacial thinning rates outside Antarctica and Greenland doubling this century.
For the first time ever, researchers analyzed three-dimensional satellite measurements of the world’s approximately 220,000 glaciers, except for those on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The results, published in
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