Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss
September 16, 2026
September 16, 2026
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Sept. 16 -- Northumbria University issued the following news release:
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Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss
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The longest satellite record ever assembled shows that Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s, raising global sea levels by more than 3 centimetres - and that most of the loss has come from glaciers flowing faster into the ocean, not from melt . . .
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Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss
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The longest satellite record ever assembled shows that Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s, raising global sea levels by more than 3 centimetres - and that most of the loss has come from glaciers flowing faster into the ocean, not from melt . . .