![how much ice has been lost from and gained by 19 different glacierised regions around the world](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Global_glacier_mass_loss_1961_2016_large-1.jpg)
Glaciers Lose 9 Trillion Tons of Ice in Half a Century
An international team used classical glaciological field observations combined with a wealth of information from various satellite missions to painstakingly calculate how much ice has been lost or gained by 19 different glacierized regions around the world.