The global loss of ice in the world is accelerating …

The speed at which ice is disappearing across the planet accelerates at an unprecedented rate, according to a survey published Monday by The Cryosphere magazine.

The study, led by the University of Leeds (UK), also reveals that the Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, which is equivalent to a 100 meter thick ice cap that would cover the whole of the UK.

The data was released by a research team, the first to perform an analysis of global ice loss using data from satellites.

The team found that the rate of Earth’s ice loss had increased dramatically over the past three decades. The falling mass of ice in the world forsea ​​level rising, increasing the risk of flooding in coastal communities and threatening to destroy natural habitats on which wildlife dependadd the experts.

The research, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, also included experts from the University of Edinburgh, University College London (UCL) and Earthwave data science specialists.

Research shows that, overall, there has been a 65% increase in the rate of ice loss over a 23-year period, mainly due to the loss of polar ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland.

Lead author Thomas Slater, a researcher at the Leeds Center for Polar Observation and Modeling, said that while each region analyzed lost ice, “Losses from the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps have accelerated the most.”

This situation responds to “global warming scenarios” and therefore sea ​​level rise “will have very serious effects on coastal communities during this centurySlater noted that the study was the first of its kind to examine all of the disappearing ice on Earth, using satellite observations.

In the study 215,000 glaciers scattered around the planet, the polar caps of Greenland and Antarctica, as well as the drifting sea ice were assessed.

Rising air temperatures have been the primary driver of the decrease in Arctic sea ice and mountain glaciers around the world, while rising ocean temperatures have increased the decline of the Antarctic ice sheet.

In the case of the Greenland ice sheet, the ice losses were triggered by a combination of rising ocean and atmospheric temperatures.