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As climate changes, study finds world's glaciers melting faster

Nearly all of the world's glaciers are losing mass - and at an accelerated pace, according to a new study published Wednesday that could impact future projections for ice loss.

The study in the science journal Nature provides one of the most wide-ranging overviews yet of ice mass loss from about 220,000 glaciers around the world, a major source of sea-level rise.

Using high-resolution imagery from Nasa's Terra satellite between...

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