"This is the clearest picture yet of how fast Himalayan glaciers are melting over this time interval, and why," said lead author Joshua Maurer, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University in New York. The Greenland ice sheet holds the equivalent of seven meters yards of sea level. The model relies on more accurate representations of the flow of "outlet glaciers," river-like bodies of ice that connect to the ocean. "The study found that melting outlet glaciers could account for up to 40% of the ice mass lost from Greenland in the next 200 years." As ocean waters have warmed over the past two decades, they have melted the floating ice that once shielded the outlet glaciers.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 22, 2019 15:45 UTC