Glaciers Retreat Rapidly

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World's glacier mass shrank again in 2024, says UN

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Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record.

More than 275,000 glaciers worldwide cover approximately 700,000 square kilometers .

At current rates of melting, many glaciers in western Canada and the United States , Scandinavia , central Europe , the Caucasus , New Zealand "will not survive the 21st century " Together, they lost 450 billion tonnes of mass in 2024 .

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