Environment News Service: The current rate of glacier melt around the world is unprecedented in recorded history, new research by the World Glacier Monitoring Service demonstrates.
Based at the University of Zurich, the World Glacier Monitoring Service compiles the results of worldwide glacier observations in annual calls-for-data from its national correspondents in more than 30 countries.
The current database contains more than 5,000 measurements of glacier volume and mass changes since 1850 and more than 42,000 front...