Climate change is shrinking glaciers faster than ever, study finds

WASHINGTON — Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s.

The world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 231 billion metric tons annually from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 314 billion tons annually over the next decade, according to the study in this week's journal Nature.

In the last few years, the melt has accelerated even more, hitting a record 548 billion tons lost in 2023, the last year analyzed.