Climate change is shrinking glaciers faster than ever, with 7 trillion tons lost since 2000

A new and massive study finds that climate change is melting the world’s mountain glaciers faster than ever. They are now shrinking at more than twice the speed of the early 2000s, according to the study in this week’s journal Nature. Since 2000, the world has lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice from mountain glaciers. In 2023, the world’s glaciers lost more than 600 billion tons of ice. Some of the fastest melts are in Alaska. Smaller glaciers in central Europe such as the Alps have shrunk the most proportionally.

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