Billions of tons of water lost from world's glaciers, satellite reveals

Billions of tons of water lost from world's glaciers, satellite reveals:

The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world's polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain's largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of the Earth's frozen "cryosphere".