Human-caused global warming already has doomed a large fraction of Earth’s glaciers

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But thereʼs a silver lining to this dark cloud: You can still make a personal difference in preserving glacial ice.

Even if we somehow stopped climate change dead in its tracks right now, recent research shows that more than a third of the world’s 200,000 glaciers would melt anyway.

That’s because glacial ice takes decades to fully respond to the human-caused global warming that has already occurred. And as the inevitable thawing continues, meltwater flowing into the oceans will contribu

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