On Earth, the amount of ice lost each year is equal to a monstrous, over six-mile-high ice cube looming over New York City.
And this ice loss is accelerating.
In research published Monday in the scientific journal The Cryosphere, earth scientists concluded the planet lost a prodigious 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017. This means ice mass is melting away, like a shrinking glacier. Since the 1990s, the rate of annual ice loss has increased by 57 percent.
“Over the past…