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has come out from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. And one of the scientists there, we'll give a correct quote from this one scientist, we did a T-16 wager melt, that rate would come up, nevertheless, the day you load and witness these results based on the measurements, and it's surprisingly difficult to accept. So from their models and their measurements, they're now taking, their predictions are now falling in line with what you're actually seeing. The yearly losses of ice from these glaciers between 2021 and 2024, as well as the total loss of ice measured during this period are record breaking. And the causes include low winter snow accumulation, early season heat waves. And prolonged warm dry conditions, this was published June 25th in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, in between 2000 and 2023 glaciers around the world, altogether, they lost 301 billion tons, 273 million tons of ice per year, and that was contributing to around a fifth of observed sea level rise, this is according to the study as well. And the research has found that 2021 right to 2024, that was the worst period for ice loss in glacier monitoring in the 1960s, and glacier ice loss was extreme over the four year period, with one-tenth of all glacier ice in Switzerland melting away in just two years between 2022 and 2023. And the glacier ice not only increases sea level rise but also threatens freshwater availability, it, the increase in elevation risk of geohazards, and also alters the melting landscapes, and that was something else in cloud as 92 as a sign. And the heat waves and wildfires just dropped in. And they're all contributing as well, and to research some of this glacier melt, the team used data from the World Glacier Monitoring Service and Airborne Survey as well as the Climate Records and Satellite Observation, they had this information as a computer model to evaluate mass changes for two US glaciers, three Canadian glaciers and five twist glaciers. The two US glaciers were south past Washington State, and the very glaciers in Montana, the three Canadian glaciers.