Author: Doyle Rice / Source: USA TODAY
Thanks to global warming, our planet’s glaciers continue to melt away, losing up to 390 billion tons of ice and snow per year, a new study suggests.
The largest losses were glaciers in Alaska, followed by the melting ice fields in southern South America and glaciers in the Arctic.
“Over 30 years, suddenly almost all regions started losing mass at the same time,” said study lead author Michael Zemp of the University of Zurich. “That’s clearly climate change if you look at the global picture.”
He said glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges by the end of the century, including those in the U.S.
The world’s seas have risen about an inch in the past 50 years just due to glacier melt…
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