Ice losses have soared from about 760 billion tons per year in the 1990s to more than 1.2 trillion tons per year in the 2010s, a new study released Monday shows. That is an increase of more than 60 percent, equating to 28 trillion tons of melted ice in total and it means that roughly 3 percent of all the extra energy trapped within Earth’s system by climate change has gone toward turning ice into water….
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