Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice since the Mid-1990s

Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice since the Mid-1990s

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-has-lost-28-trillion-tons-of-ice-since-the-mid-1990s/

The world’s frozen places are shrinking—and they’re disappearing at faster rates as time goes by.

In the 1990s, the world was losing around 800 billion metric tons of ice each year. Today, that number has risen to around 1.2 trillion tons.

Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice since the Mid-1990s

Jan 25, 2021, 9:27pm UTC
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-has-lost-28-trillion-tons-of-ice-since-the-mid-1990s/ > The world’s frozen places are shrinking—and they’re disappearing at faster rates as time goes by. > In the 1990s, the world was losing around 800 billion metric tons of ice each year. Today, that number has risen to around 1.2 trillion tons.