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Global retreat of glaciers has strongly accelerated

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There are currently around 275,000 glaciers worldwide, in which huge quantities of fresh water are stored.

Since the turn of the millennium , glaciers around the world have lost around 273 billion tonnes of ice per year.

In a global comparison, the glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees are melting the fastest.

Overall, the world's glaciers have lost five per cent of their total volume since 2000 .

The community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 was published in the journal Nature , 2025 .

The study was published on the basis of a community of community estimates published in Nature journal Nature.com/s41586/024-08545-z.

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