Melting Glaciers Causing Sea Levels to Rise at Ever Greater Rates
(World News Austria)

Image: The melted ice of glaciers is responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the current rise in global sea levels, as a recent study in `Nature` shows. Picture: Field work on the Langenferner glacier. (Credit: Stephan Galos) Glaciers have lost more than 9,000 billion tons (that is 9 625 000 000 000 tons) of ice between 1961 and 2016, which has resulted in global sea levels increasing by 27 millimeters in this period. The largest contributors were glaciers in Alaska, followed by the melting ice fields in Patagonia and glaciers in the Arctic regions. Glaciers in the...