Global ice sheets lost over twelve trillion tons during the last forty-seven years. Fifty-eight scientists from institutions worldwide signed a detailed and comprehensive new report together.
Satellite data revealed melting raised global sea levels by about thirty-one millimeters worldwide.
Researchers combined data from twenty-seven missions, reviewing forty-two ice sheet studies collectively. Eighty-four percent of the ice loss comes from glaciers meeting the rising ocean waters.
Most lost ice entered oceans through glacier acceleration, not merely by surface melting processes. Scientific Data published findings: ice loss has been accelerating since the nineteen nineties without decreasing.