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The world鈥檚 glaciers have shrunk more than 5 per cent since 2000
An analysis of more than 270,000 glaciers worldwide reveals that they have lost around 7 trillion tonnes of ice since 2000, raising sea levels by 2 centimetres
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Dark algae could accelerate melting of Greenland ice sheet
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Earth wouldn鈥檛 have ice caps without eroding rocks and quiet volcanoes
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Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse than expected
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Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains
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Kenneth Libbrecht: How to grow a perfect snow crystal
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Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth’s ice formations
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Melting permafrost makes ‘drunken forests’ store less carbon
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Why scientists scanned giant hailstones in a dentist’s office
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Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate
Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economic consequences around the world
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Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton鈥檚 doomed ship
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New Scientist recommends a moving Antarctica memoir, Breaking the Ice
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Rising land under Antarctica could slow sea level rise
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Glaciers in the Andes are the smallest they鈥檝e been for 130,000 years
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