An international team of researchers has made a worrying discovery: our planet's glaciers are melting at even more alarming rates than previously expected, in large part due to human-driven climate change. As detailed in their paper published in the journal Nature, the team estimated that ice loss acceelrated from about 255 billion tons a year between 2000 and 2011 to 346 billion tons on average between 2012 and 2023. The years from 2019 to 2023 represented the "largest annual ice loss" of more than 440 billion tons a year. In 2023, the Earth hit a terrifying new record of 604 […]