US EditionWorld's glaciers are losing record ice as global temperatures climb, U.N. says
- The United Nations reported that all 19 glacier regions experienced a net mass loss in 2024, marking the third consecutive year of decline labeled as a matter of 'survival'.
- In the last three years, glaciers worldwide lost 450 billion tonnes of mass, indicating the largest recorded glacial mass loss, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service.
- Melting glaciers have caused 18 millimeters of global sea level rise since 2000, endangering millions of people, as noted by the World Glacier Monitoring Service.
- Experts warn that many glaciers may not survive this century due to current melting rates, threatening water supplies for millions, as stated by the World Meteorological Organization.
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Swedish glaciers particularly vulnerable: "Band-Aids" useless
Sweden's glaciers are particularly vulnerable to global warming, according to a recent report from the UN agency WMO. Within 75 years, most of them will probably be gone. “Unfortunately, some will not survive,” says glaciologist Nina Kirchner.
Alaska glaciologists reflect on a rapidly changing icescape
Mendenhall Glacier on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Listen to this story: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/24GlacierScience_web.wav Glaciers shape the land and lives of Alaskans — carving mountains, funneling cold freshwater into rivers, carrying nutrients to the sea and reflecting sunlight back to space. Friday marked the first-ever World Day for Glaciers, a day observed by the United Nations to sound t…
A Primer On Sea Level Rise - CleanTechnica
Sea level rise refers to the average increase in the water level of the Earth’s oceans. As ice sheets and glaciers melt, they add more water. A huge toolkit of increasingly sophisticated instruments, deployed across the oceans, on polar ice, and in orbit, reveals significant changes among globally interlocking factors ... [continued] The post A Primer On Sea Level Rise appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Robust acceleration of Earth system heating observed over the past six decades
Global heating of the Earth system is unequivocal. However, detecting an acceleration of Earth heating has remained elusive to date, despite suggestive evidence of a potential increase in heating rates. In this study, we demonstrate that since 1960, the warming of the world ocean has accelerated at a relatively consistent pace of 0.15 ± 0.05 (W/m2)/decade, while the land, cryosphere, and atmosphere have exhibited an accelerated pace of 0.013 ± 0…
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