Canadian Glaciers Now Major Contributor to Sea Level Change, UCI Study Shows

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - 20:01 in Earth & Climate

Ice loss from Canada's Arctic glaciers has transformed them into a major contributor to sea level change, new research by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has found. From 2005 to 2015, surface melt off ice caps and glaciers of the Queen Elizabeth Islands grew by an astonishing 900 percent.

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