Earth’s glaciers are melting much faster than scientists thought. The most comprehensive measurement of glaciers worldwide found that thousands of inland masses of snow compressed into ice are shrinking 18 percent faster than an international panel of scientists calculated in 2013. The world’s glaciers are shrinking five times faster now than they were in the 1960s. “That’s clearly climate change if you look at the global picture.”The glaciers shrinking fastest are in central Europe, the Caucasus region, western Canada, the U.S. Lower 48 states, New Zealand and near the tropics. “In these regions, at the current glacier loss rate, the glaciers will not survive the century,” Zemp said.

Source: Hindustan Times April 09, 2019 18:00 UTC