World’s glaciers melting faster than ever recorded

Machine Learning Breakthrough Enhances Glacier Lake Depth Measurement Accuracy

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking machine learning approach that significantly improves the accuracy of measuring glacier lake depths, addressing critical challenges in understanding climate change and potential sea-level rise. A research team from Sun Yat-sen University published a study in the Journal of Remote Sensing demonstrating an innovative technique that combines advanced machine learning algorithms with satellite imagery to est…

Melting Rwenzori glaciers: A race against time

With rising global temperatures caused by climate change, the glaciers of the Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda have not been

Study Finds Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Ever

A recent study combining 223 estimates from 450 data contributors has found that glaciers worldwide are melting faster than previously thought, having lost 5% of their ice since 2000. Additionally, according to the United Nations University, we are “projected to lose around 50 percent of glaciers (excluding Greenland and Antarctica) by 2100, even if global warming can be limited to 1.5°C.” The detrimental effects of glacial mass loss, including …

2025 is the International Year for Glacier Conservation, an initiative of UNESCO in conjunction with the World Meteorological Organization. This year will also mark the first World Glacier Day. Saving glaciers means ensuring water security for millions of people who live off the water they provide. Glaciers, enormous, dynamic ice structures that have been present on the planet for many years, are at great risk of disappearing as a result of incr…

World’s glaciers melting faster than ever recorded

The world’s glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded under the impactof climate change, according to the most comprehensive scientific analysisto date. Mountain glaciers – frozen rivers of ice – act as a freshwaterresource for millions of people worldwide and lock up enough water to raiseglobal sea-levels by 32cm (13in) if they melted entirely. But since the turn of the century, they have lost more than 6,500 billion tonnes – or 5%– of the…