Earth has lost about 28 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 1994 and 2017
According to the researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Leeds and Edinburgh, the Earth has lost about 28 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 1994 and 2017. They scanned the ice coverage through satellite data for the very first time in Antarctica, Greenland as well as glaciers across the globe and found around 60% of ice has melted drastically. Large amounts of ice melting from Antarctica, Greenland and various glaciers are said to have contributed to a 3.5cm rise in global sea levels and there will be no return of ice in the future.
According to Dr Isobel Lawrence, a researcher at the University of Leeds, UK “In the two decades since the 1990s, we have seen this estimate go up from 0.8 to 1.2 trillion tonnes of ice a year, so that is a 57 percent increase in one decade.
The increase in sea temperatures is the main reasons for the rapid depletion of ice from Antarctica and atmospheric temperatures are the primary cause of ice loss from inland glaciers in areas like the Himalayas.
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