Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

FILE PHOTO: Portage Glacier as seen from Portage Pass in Chugach National Forest in Alaska, U.S. July 7, 2020. Picture taken July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.

Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago, scientists report in a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere.