'Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise' ❄️🧊

Huge effort to gather mass loss estimate outside ice sheets btw 2000 and 2023 📈

Since 2000, 5% ice volume lost globally (273 gigatonnes/yr) 🌊

Guess who 'won'? 🥇
Alps and Pyrenees lost 39% of their 2000 volume! 😲😱
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08545-z