Canadian glaciers to decline

The glaciers of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago will undergo a dramatic retreat this century if warming projections hold true.

A new study suggests the region’s ice fields could lose perhaps as much as a fifth of their volume.

Such a melt would add 3.5cm to the height of the world’s oceans. Only the ice of Greenland and Antarctica is expected to contribute more.

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