Declassified spy satellite photos reveal accelerating ice loss at Earth's “third pole”

It's not entirely news that the Earth's ice budget is under threat from a warming climate, but a new study has looked into just how fast that's happening. Using recently declassified spy satellite photos, researchers found that compared to the last quarter of the 20th century, Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as fast this century. In a rare piece of good news, a separate study has shown that a Greenland glacier has gained ice for the third year in a row.

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Category: Environment

Tags:

• Climate
• climate change
• Climate Change
• Columbia University
• Data
• glacier
• Greenland
• Himalayas
• Ice
• NASA
• Satellite

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