New Zealand; International
Glaciers worldwide are losing ice at a faster rate, with ice loss increasing 36% over the last ten years (2012–2023) compared to the previous decade, according to a huge global effort to track glacier melting. The study found that since 2000, glaciers globally have lost around 5% of their ice, but in some regions, the ice loss is as much as 39%. In NZ, glaciers have lost 29% of glacier mass. The researchers say that this global glacier mass loss is about 18% larger than the loss of ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet and more than twice that from the Antarctic Ice Sheet. They say we are facing continued and possibly accelerated mass loss from glaciers until the end of this century, which underpins the IPCC’s call for urgent and concrete actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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