Faster-flowing glaciers fuel decades of polar ice loss
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A long-term satellite data record shows Greenland and Antarctica have together lost about 11 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s, according to ESA. That loss has raised global sea level by more than three centimeters.
The longest satellite data record of ice-sheet change ever assembled has revealed that Greenland and Antarctica have lost a staggering 11 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s, driving global sea level up by more than three centimetres.
Summary by ESA, the primary source