Writer Fuel: Earth’s Glaciers Losing Enough Water Every Second to Fill 3 Olympic Swimming Pools
Earth’s glaciers lost 300 billion tons (273 billion metric tons) of ice every year on average between 2000 and 2023, amounting to a 5% decline in volume since the start of the millennium, a groundbreaking new study finds. The loss equates to roughly three Olympic swimming pools’ worth of ice melting or breaking off from … Read more