According to a report published in Nature Communications,

roughly 55 gigatonnes of ice were lost via frontal ablation

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from around 1,500 glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere between 2010 and 2022.

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The findings imply that this mechanism has a larger effect on glacial mass loss than melt in some places,

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which has consequences for monitoring sea-level rise

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and identifying hotspot areas where this process occurs.

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