Summary
A few special glaciers that end in lakes melt even faster. 🏞️
These melting glaciers are making the sea rise higher. 🌎
Scientists are studying them to help protect our planet. 🔬
Key Points
4 points1
Only about 3% of all glaciers lose more than half of the world’s ice.
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These glaciers are the ones that end in lakes, oceans, or ice shelves.
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They lost about 134 billion tonnes of ice each year from 2000‑2019.
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Lake‑ending glaciers melt about 57% more ice than land‑ending ones.
New Words to Learn
5 wordsglacier
a huge, slow‑moving river of frozen water
calving
when a big chunk of ice breaks off a glacier
tonne
a big weight, about the same as a small car
sea‑level rise
the ocean getting higher because ice melts
researchers
people who study and discover new things
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