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World's glaciers are losing enough ice to fill 3 Olympic pools every second, terrifying new study finds

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A new study finds that Earth 's glaciers lost 300 billion tons of ice every year on average between 2000 and 2023 .

The loss equates to roughly three Olympic swimming pools' worth of ice melting or breaking off from glaciers every second .

This startling decline is the result of global warming driven by greenhouse gas emissions.

The Alps and Pyrenees experienced the greatest decline relative to their size.

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