Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss

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• The longest satellite record ever assembled shows that Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice since the 1970s, raising global sea level by more than 3 centimeters (1.
• Reported by Phys.org and published Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:02 UTC.

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