Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years

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Scientists say 28 trillion tonnes of ice has disappeared from earth’s surface in the last 30 years.

Greenland lost a record amount of ice that equated to six Olympic-sized swimming pools each second in 2019.

That’s according to a new study which found Greenland lost 532-gigatonnes of ice, breaking the previous record set in 2012 by 15%.

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