A century's worth of data tells the story - our glaciers are melting faster than ever

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 century’s worth of data.

That’s how much researchers looked at for a new study — which showed that the world’s glaciers are melting faster than scientists think they ever have before, and that even if global warming stopped today, they would continue to melt.

The observations show that “the rates of early 21st-century [glacial] mass loss are without precedent on a global scale, at least for the time period observed and probably also for recorded history,” according to the study from the World Glacier Monitoring Service, based in Zurich.

Read the ClimateProgress story - “World’s Glaciers Melting Faster Than Ever Before Recorded, Study Finds”.